Wyckoff
Wyckoff, NJ · Education
New York Post
Undefeated NY high school football team kicked out of playoffs over 53-second mistake
Fifty-three seconds is all it took to change a season — but not in the way you’d expect. An undefeated New York high school football team saw its championship hopes wiped out because one player — who spent less than a minute on the field — wasn’t eligible to play. Middletown High School in Orange County was disqualified from the Section IX Class AA championship after the school district withdrew its emergency court petition on Friday to reverse the disqualification. The Middletown High School Middies football team gathers in New York. Credit: Middletown High School Football/Facebook Texas high school girls’ basketball game descends into chaos as adult bodyslams player during brawl The Middies deployed a kicker, later ruled an “ineligible kickoff specialist,” who played 53 seconds in their 48-15 semifinal playoff win against Valley Central on Nov. 6 without meeting a postseason eligibility requirement. Middletown acknowledged that it made a mistake but contested that the students should not be disqualified for a decision made by adults, and the player had no impact on the game itself. The decision came after a near two-hour hearing at the Orange County Courthouse in Goshen before state Supreme Court Justice Verris Shako. Parent caught
NJ.com
Football playoff photos: N1G3 - Shabazz at Old Tappan, Nov. 13, 2026
Football playoff photos: N1G3 - Shabazz at Old Tappan, Nov. 13, 2026
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Chalkbeat
Newark scores on state tests could increase scrutiny of tutoring and literacy initiatives
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. The share of Newark students meeting state English language arts standards dropped last school year, while the share meeting math standards rose, newly released test results show. Across the city’s traditional public and charter schools, 35.7% of students met grade-level expectations in English language arts, down from 41.7% last year, according to a Chalkbeat analysis. In math, proficiency rose to 30.1%, up from 27% in 2025. The results, which the state released earlier this month, offer a mixed picture of academic performance in Newark, where schools have spent years working to help students recover from pandemic learning disruptions . The scores could lead to closer scrutiny of tutoring and literacy initiatives that have tried to assist in that recovery. Newark Public Schools officials presented preliminary results at an October school board meeting , acknowledging that most district students continued to fall short of grade-level expectations. The state’s more-detailed release also shows substantial differences in proficiency between Newark Public Schools, the state’s largest school district,
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Nutley Med School Lands $20M Gift to Fight Burnout in New Doctors, Nurses
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine — Existing Student Wellbeing Office. An anonymous donor has handed Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine $20 million to build a new program aimed at keeping medical students, resident physicians and early-career nurses from burning out before their careers even get rolling. The school announced the gift on Wednesday, earmarking it to launch what it's calling the Healthcare Professionals' Wellbeing Academy.
Daily Voice
Yonkers Basketball Star Earns Division I Scholarship, Becomes First To Do So At Her School
A Westchester County high school basketball standout who helped lead her team to its first state championship has made history again, becoming the first student-athlete at her school to earn a full Division I athletic scholarship. Grace Gleeson, a senior at Yonkers Montessori Academy, official…
Daily Voice
Section 9 Disqualification: Newburgh Superintendent Says Team Blamed For Rival's Mistake
The superintendent of an Orange County school district is firing back at criticism of her football team's players and coaches amid a growing controversy over a rival school's disqualification from a championship game. Newburgh Enlarged City School District Superintendent Dr. Jackielyn Manning …
The Bergen Record
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Montclair’s case against the New Jersey school funding formula, by the numbers
Montclair’s public schools got the largest aid increase the state allows this year: about $600,000. Their health insurance costs rose $4.2 million. Superintendent Ruth B. Turner says that gap shows what’s broken in the New Jersey school funding formula, and she is asking Montclair residents to tell the state so in person at a public forum in Newark on October 27.
Chalkbeat
Newark parents push for independent interpreters after superintendent summarizes Spanish testimony
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Newark Latino families and labor organizers are asking the school district to require professional interpreters at every board meeting after they say Spanish-speaking parents’ public comments were incompletely interpreted at a recent meeting. Rafael Chavez, a community organizer with the New Labor advocacy organization, said in the absence of a qualified interpreter at last month’s school board meeting, superintendent Roger León stepped in to interpret some parents’ public comments. Chavez told Chalkbeat the issue of interpretation has come up repeatedly at previous Newark board meetings, including at the September meeting where he testified in Spanish without an interpreter. According to Chavez, León omitted portions of parents’ statements that Chavez said criticized how they and their children have been treated in district schools. In a review of the board video , Newark parents Sonia Pangul, Mayra Sanmartin, and Brenda Villatoro Villela can be heard testifying in Spanish about concerns regarding their children’s treatment in district schools and the lack of availability of music, sports, and