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NYC seventh-grader demands DOE boss to drop bizarre schedule
Hey, teacher, leave them kids at home! A 12-year-old Brooklyn student is leading the charge in demanding the city Department of Education drop a bizarre scheduling plan that requires students to show up for a one-day school week before Christmas break. Isaac Regnier, a seventh-grader at IS 96 in Bensonhurst, started an online petition drive two weeks ago that has already garnered over 6,400 signatures calling on Chancellor David Banks to “Fix the NYC Schools Calendar.” Isaac’s ingenious plan: cancel class on Monday, Dec. 23 – the day before winter break begins – and make it up by extending the academic year...
Paterson schools private security costs will top $10 million in the new school year
PATERSON — The school district’s spending on private security guards will break the $10 million mark in 2024-25, an increase that comes as teachers’ union leaders allege incidents of violence are being swept under the rug. The proposed $10.14 million contract with Allied Universal Security Services of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania would require the district...
Commissioners Evans and Petracco Weigh in On Nutley School Finance Crisis
NUTLEY, NJ - The Township of Nutley discussed a variety of topics at their recent commissioners meeting on June 6, 2024, ranging from support for the LGBTIQ+ community to Gun Violence Awareness Day, as well as one of the township’s hardest hitting topics - the Nutley Board of Education and its $7 million shortfall. Previously reported by TAPinto, the Nutley BOE announced on April 17, 2024, that they were facing an audit of finances, revealing a whopping $7 million shortfall. An independent investigation conducted in February 2024 by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), District Auditor’s Lerch, Vinci & Bliss, as well...
Newark School District Spent Thousands to Keep Settlement Secret, Then Lost
The Newark Board of Education paid attorneys $54,520 in a failed attempt to keep secret its contract with a developer to build a museum at a school that it had sold many years ago, records obtained by TAPinto Newark show. This includes $24,520 in fees charged by the district’s attorneys, as well as $30,000 in fees charged by the publisher’s attorney, which the district is required to pay as a result of the Board losing its case. It is a contract the school district has since been scrutinized for awarding without a public bid.CLICK HERE TO SIGN...
Top Paterson school execs get 3% raises and principals get new pay hikes for 5 years
PATERSON — Nine top-level administrators at Paterson Public Schools will be getting 3% annual pay increases on July 1, according to a school board personnel report. Meanwhile, the district has settled its labor contract with Paterson’s school principals in a deal that provides for pay hikes in each of five years. ...
Antisemitic hate thrives at NYC’s most prestigious public high schools Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant, and Bronx Science
Antisemitic hate is thriving in some of the city’s most elite public high schools. At Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — three of the city’s nine specialized high schools — students have been tormented by peers giving Nazi salutes and accusing them of being part of a “genocide” of Palestinians, while school administrators and teachers also spew pro-Palestine propaganda, according to students and evidence obtained by The Post. Last week, Stuyvesant’s business manager Dina Ingram blasted out an email containing an anti-Israel protest guide from a George Soros-funded nonprofit to the entire school community “on behalf of Principal [Seung]...
Ridgewood High School Student Wins National Merit Scholarship
RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Ridgewood High School's Nathan Y. Kotchkin has been named one of the 2,900 awardees of the 2024 National Merit Scholarships, which provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. Nathan is receiving his award from Tulsa, where he's expected to study chemistry. To be considered for this award, he had to take the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test to be named as a semifinalist. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Next, semifinalists had to advance to the finals by fulfilling additional requirements – each student was asked to submit a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also had to have an outstanding academic record and an endorsement from a high school official. Read more Education news from around Ridgewood: Board of Education Reaches Contract Agreement with Ridgewood Education Association Ridgewood Public Schools Celebrate 2024 Teachers of the Year Students from Ridgewood Graduate from College of the Holy Cross For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
NYC doesn’t have safety agents at more than half its pre-K centers: ‘Nobody at the door’
Despite the city Department of Education’s mantra that “safety is our highest priority,” the city fails to provide safety officers to guard all the youngsters in its pre-K programs, The Post has learned. The city contracts with some 1,300 community-based organizations, or CBOs, to run classes for roughly 63,000 three- and 4-year-olds — about 60% of all preschoolers in the DOE. But the city does not assign NYPD school safety agents to those contracted programs, leaving its littlest and most vulnerable students unprotected. “There’s a bunch of babies – and nobody at the door,” Brieann Duberry, a pre-K staffer and mom, told The Post. The...
Union City High School Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary
It was a special day for Union City High School on Saturday afternoon, as the Board of Education and local community celebrated the school’s 15th anniversary with an outdoor festival. Located on Kennedy Boulevard on the former site of the old Roosevelt Stadium, the high school was born out...
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Graduates Class of 2024
One hundred and two students from the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine have received their medical degrees – and are now poised to start their medical careers in residencies at top programs across the country. The medical students came from the 2020 cohort of the medical school (75 students)...
NJSIAA Track: Hasbrouck Heights Girls Win Group 1 Title
SOMERSET, NJ – The Hasbrouck Heights Girls Track captured their second consecutive NJSIAA Group 1 Championships title, held at Franklin High School on Friday and Saturday. The boys' team finished in a tie for third place. The Lady Aviators scored 70 point, finishing ahead of Audobon High School, who had 52. Clayton High School was third with 46, Salem fourth with 40 and AP Schalik was fifth with 39.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER On the boys' side, Woodbury, who scored 78 points, won the boys' title. Glassboro High School was second with 57,...
Entire class at NYC’s Collegiate School blasts officials for forcing their ‘political opinions’ on them after antisemitism spat
Leave them kids alone! Rising seniors at Manhattan’s elite Collegiate School penned a scathing letter to administrators and parents to quit telling them what to think — after a long-running antisemitism spat erupted into public view. In the letter to administrators and board of trustees, the swanky prep school’s incoming Class of ’25 said it’s “not their place to prescribe specific political opinions to the student body.” “While many parents have called for the school to provide moral leadership in these divisive and challenging times, we would like to emphasize that the moral leadership best for our community is one that does...
Newark’s decline and the state’s neglect | Editorial
After more than a decade of sturdy improvements in Newark schools, we are now seeing a tragic reversal of that trend. Test scores have collapsed under Gov. Phil Murphy: More than 80 percent of district third graders can’t read on grade level. At five district schools, just one third...
Pro-Palestinian encampment at Rutgers-Newark disbands peacefully, officials say
After more than a month, a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of Rutgers-Newark has concluded, university officials announced Sunday. The "small and sparsely occupied encampment" was dismantled by protesters after school officials told them they needed to decamp, officials said in a Sunday statement. The decampment, which was executed peacefully and without any...
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