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Hasbrouck Heights BOE Approves New High School Principal
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - The Hasbrouck Heights Board of Education approved Vincenzo Barchini as the new Hasbrouck Heights High School principal during Thursday night's meeting. He will replace Linda Simmons who announced her retirement from the district in March 2024. The Board approved Barchini to begin on August 1, 2024. He is the current Director of Guidance & Testing. Previously, he was the Vice Principal under Simmons.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Read: Hasbrouck Heights High School Principal to Retire During the public comments, Euclid School principal Michael Sickels praised the service of Simmons, who had...
New Jersey’s Oldest All-Black School Building to Become a Museum Celebrating Black History
The oldest school building in New Jersey may soon become a museum to celebrate its Black history. Located in Newark, the 179-year-old State Street Public School is the only remaining location of the city’s former school for Black students, as well as the home of the first Black principal in the city’s school system. Although the school has been vacant for decades, officials still aim to turn the building into a place where people can gather to learn more about its Black history. “At some point in time you have to preserve what you can,” said Marian Bolden, who has led the efforts...
The DOE is struggling with banning phones in class because it’s already destroyed school discipline
Under a rumored city Department of Education plan to implement a cellphone ban across all 1,600 city public schools, students would be banned from using phones in schools starting in February 2025 and required to place them in school-funded lockers or magnetically locked pouches. Above all else, this is a damning confession that the folks in charge of city schools don’t think teachers can control their classrooms. Yet if they can’t do that, they can’t actually teach. Yes, making kids stow their phones is a challenge, but it’s not one that can be met by some bureaucratic fix: The teacher, for example, will...
🤰👶🤱AUGUST Classes, Workshops and Class Series
👨👩👧👦 Hey wonderful families and parents-to-be! Montclair B.A.B.Y. is looking forward to an August full of learning, community, and fun!. 🗓️ August 6th - Infant Massage Workshop for Families. 🗓️ August 8th - Baby Makes Three Workshop. 🗓️August 22nd...
Wallington football bound for better things in 2024 | State of the Program
Wallington finished winless last season, but does not feel completely defeated. Nor should it. Life was never going to be easy last year with the Panthers moving up to a higher division and confronting that challenge with only four senior starters. ...
Felician University Appoints New Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences
Felician University recently announced the appointment of Dr. Tara E. Kent as the school’s new Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Under this new role, Dr. Kent will look to improve academic programs and increase student engagement through an interactive curriculum and more learning opportunities for students.
Paramus High School hires new principal, Dominick Miller, formerly at Roxbury HS
Paramus High School will welcome a new principal this coming school year. Dominick Miller, who served as the principal of Roxbury High School for the past six years, will join Paramus High School as its principal this fall. He is replacing Raymond Kiem, who is retiring after 10 years as the school’s principal....
Volunteers from New York Cares spruce up NYC public school ahead of students' arrival in the fall
New York Cares, the largest volunteer network in the city, brought together dozens of volunteers Friday to spruce up a New York City public school.They gathered on the Upper West Side at PS 145, The Bloomingdale School, to prepare the facility for the upcoming school year.Volunteers cleaned classrooms, walkways and storage areas - and they painted interior walls and the building's exterior!New York Cares recently launched its fifth annual Stand with Students campaign, an initiative supporting New York City public schools and students.To find out how to volunteer with the organization, visit www.newyorkcares.org.----------* Get Eyewitness News Delivered* More New York City news* Send us a news tip* Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts* Follow us on YouTubeSubmit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness NewsHave a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below. If attaching a video or photo, terms of use apply.
3 ex-employees of N.J. law school admit stealing $1.3M from university
Three former employees of Seton Hall Law School have pleaded guilty to a $1.3 million scheme to defraud the university, authorities said. The trio admitted to a wide-ranging scam that included asking vendors to pay them directly, purchasing hundreds of thousands dollars worth of gift cards and forming a shell company to bill the university for services never rendered, U.S. District Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Friday.
New class size caps could worsen teacher turnover at high-poverty schools, report warns
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.New York City’s highest-poverty schools could experience an exodus of teachers in the coming years, an unintended consequence of a sweeping class size mandate, according to a new report.All of the city’s public schools must limit their class sizes by 2028 to between 20 and 25 students, depending on the grade level, thanks to a new state law. But more affluent schools tend to have more crowded classes, which will require more teacher hiring.Most of those educators will likely be new to the profession or...
St. Joseph football won't look the same in coach's second stint | State of the Program
MONTVALE − St. Joseph has a new boss − same as the old boss − with a different approach. Augie Hoffmann is back as the head coach at his alma mater after working the last four years in college football with Rutgers and Columbia. Now, he inherits the task of bringing the Green Knights back to No. 1 in New Jersey. ...
Paterson schools lose a top exec to Ridgewood for higher salary
PATERSON — The city’s school business administrator, Richard Matthews, has resigned to take the same position in Ridgewood at a higher salary. Matthews, who has been the city’s school business administrator since 2017, would have been making $212,990 in Paterson this year. His salary in Ridgewood will be $221,400, under a resolution approved...
City Launches Expanded Student OMNY Cards
It will now be easier and more affordable for public school students to get to and from school and after-school activities via public transportation. Starting the 2024-2025 school year, students will receive Student OMNY cards valid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with up to four free rides a day, according to a news release.
CUNY campus’ mock student encampment for TV shoot enrages real-life anti-Israel protesters
A mock student protest encampment set up on a CUNY college campus for the filming of a TV show this week sparked real-life backlash from a small group of anti-Israel demonstrators upset by the depiction. The drama played out Monday and Tuesday at Queens College, which was transformed into the made-up “Kincaid College” for an episode of “FBI: Most Wanted,” a law enforcement procedural entering its sixth season on CBS. The made-for-TV encampment sparked a protest, with video from CUNY4PALESTINE, a campus anti-Israel group, showing a handful of demonstrators running up and positioning themselves in front of a group...
Former NYC early childhood official to return as division’s next deputy chancellor
A former early childhood education official is rejoining the New York City public schools as the division’s next deputy chancellor. Schools Chancellor David Banks on Friday tapped Simone Hawkins to head the city’s early childhood education programs — taking the reins from embattled deputy chancellor Kara Ahmed, who announced her departure earlier this month. Hawkins, whose first day will be ...
New York Harbor School Savants (and Newly Minted WEDG® Associates) Embrace Real-World Waterfront Design Challenge
June is normally a month reserved for honoring Dads and Grads, but this year we saved some celebratory energy for a diverse cadre of high school sophomores – namely those of the New York Harbor School Marine Affairs and Policy program. The students earned their WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) Associate credential after finishing the WEDG Professionals Course last May and went on to complete a capstone project focused on the FiDi and Seaport Climate Resilience Plan. Their findings were presented to Waterfront Alliance, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and other partners last month.
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