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West Morris football upends Montville's undefeated season with big second half
MONTVILLE – West Morris extended its win streak and dropped Montville from the ranks of unbeatens. The Wolfpack turned it up a notch in the second half on Thursday night, scoring 21 unanswered points in a 28-6 win over the previously undefeated Mustangs in a SFC crossover in Morris County. The win pushed West...
NYC schools don't meet needs of students with disabilities, lawsuit alleges
NEW YORK — The New York City Department of Education is facing a new lawsuit from the Legal Aid Society and a group of city public school parents. It alleges that kids in need of special education programs often aren't going to school because city schools don't have what they need.According to city school data, 46.1% of students with disabilities were chronically absent in the 2022-2023 school year. That equates to over 86,000 students staying home.The lawsuit alleges that's because they simply don't want to, but because, in some cases, it's too traumatic."The Department of Ed does not have a...
Paterson Board of Education Increases Public Comment Time at Regular Meetings
PATERSON, NJ - The Paterson Board of Education has voted to extend the public comment time during its regular meetings from two minutes to three minutes, providing community members with more time to voice their concerns and opinions. The change, which was approved at the board’s meeting Wednesday night, reverses a policy that had been in place since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.During the pandemic, the BOE reduced the public speaking time limit from three to two minutes due to an influx of speakers, a move aimed at managing time and accommodating as many participants as possible in the virtual format. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERBoth the workshop meetings, which are offered in both virtual and in-person formats, and the regular meetings, which are virtual, now have a public speaking time limit of three minutes.In September the Paterson City Council rejected a proposal to extend the public comment period for individuals from three minutes to six. For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
Kenilworth's Harding Elementary School Principals' Weekly Update
KENILWORTH, NJ - Please see the following information from Harding Elementary School Principal Mr. Ronald Bubnowski. Hello Harding Families, CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Here is what you need to know this week…School is closed Monday, October 14th in observance of Columbus Day. Educator of the Year: Harding School is seeking your nominations for the Governor’s Educator of the Year program. The New Jersey Department of Education strives to recognize educators who have gone above and beyond in their service to New Jersey’s students. You are encouraged to submit a nomination for one of many dedicated and skilled educators at Harding School....
‘A mess on our hands:’ NYC teachers union raises alarm on math curriculum overhaul
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.New York City’s teachers union has been a key supporter of the ambitious effort to overhaul the literacy curriculum in elementary school, but it’s been a very different story when it comes to a big math curriculum push.Schools Chancellor David Banks is mandating almost every city high school adopt the same curriculum for Algebra I – a move that United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew in recent weeks has been publicly criticizing in stark terms.“We have a mess on our hands,” Mulgrew told Chalkbeat...
Staten Island HS football: These 36 outshined everyone en route to being named Week 5 ‘Top Performers’
Was last weekend unofficially rivalry week for high school football on Staten Island?. You can certainly make that argument when you consider Monsignor Farrell squared off against St. Peter’s; Moore Catholic visited St. Joseph by-the-Sea; New Dorp faced Susan Wagner and Curtis and Erasmus Hall locked horns. If you...
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