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NJ party boss, still in prison, gets $80K no-show school job
HILLSIDE — Anthony Salters, this township's Democratic Party boss, just started serving time in federal prison. So how is the powerbroker also teaching homebound students for Hillside Public Schools?. The district hired Salters for the newly created $80,000 position in April — just three months after he pleaded guilty...
Huge budgeting error forced N.J. school district to cut 93 staff, including teachers
As East Orange schools operated on a half day schedule on Friday for the second day in a row, the superintendent attributed the district’s cut of 93 positions to local officials mistakenly expecting more state aid when approving this year’s budget. East Orange’s school board voted to slash...
N.J. girl scores historic first touchdown in boys varsity football, shattering gridiron’s glass ceiling
Cranford High School was well on its way to an easy victory over Scotch Plains-Fanwood High Thursday night in a varsity football game, as some fans filed from the bleachers and began their trek to the parking lot. And then history happened. If you purchase a product or register for...
Forgotten Civil War veteran will finally get proper tombstone, thanks to two NY middle school students
A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper burial is finally receiving recognition, thanks to two eighth-grade students in New York. Kendall Peruzzini and Mary McCormick spoke with Fox News Digital on Wednesday about their efforts to commemorate Daniel Walterhouse, a Union Army veteran who died in 1910. Both teens attend Albion Middle School in western New York. Walterhouse, who was born in Orleans County, New York, in 1823, died at the Orleans County Alms House at around 87 years of age. He was a Orleans County native who enrolled in the Fourth Michigan Infantry in 1861. Tim Archer, a retired service learning teacher...
Montclair Standardized Test Scores Called ‘Crisis’ for Black Students
New standardized test scores presented to the Montclair Board of Education this week show gaps between the performance of minority students and their peers persist even as local students scored higher than their counterparts across the state. Of juniors at Montclair High School, 88% were “graduation ready” in English language...
Mold Found at Hannah Caldwell School; Parts of School Closed for Remediation
UNION, NJ – Mold has been discovered in and around the Hannah Caldwell Elementary School (HCES) library, said Superintendent Gerry Benaquista in a letter to the Hannah Caldwell School community on Sunday.Benaquista said the library was immediately closed pending an investigation and testing by a Board of Education-approved contractor. He said during the investigation, “signs of water damage and moisture at specific points throughout the immediate area of the library were also identified.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTERFollowing this discovery, Benaquista said, additional experts were engaged to help identify the reason for the “water intrusion”...
Pro-Israel professor at Columbia barred from campus after harassing and intimidating other employees
An outspoken pro-Israel professor at Columbia University has been temporarily barred from campus, a university spokesperson said Wednesday.Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at the Manhattan university's business school, had his campus access restricted effective Tuesday after repeatedly harassing and intimidating other employees, according to university spokesperson Ben Chang.Davidai, an Israeli citizen, has been among the most prominent campus critics of pro-Palestinian protests, saying that school officials have not done enough to crack down on the demonstrations, which he views as antisemitic.He also helped lead pro-Israel counterprotests at Columbia last spring. On X, formerly Twitter, where he has more...
Discover The Most Haunted College In America– Right In New York
Where is the most haunted college in New York State?. New York's most haunted college is actually the most haunted college in all of America too. How do we know this? Thanks to research. College Rover put together a survey where they asked college students about paranormal activity. They surveyed...
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