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Junior Varsity Girls Basketball Coach Offered Varsity Head Coaching Position
GLEN ROCK, NJ - The junior varsity girls basketball coach who was originally passed over for the varsity head coach position has now been offered the job, according to parents and friends of the coach.On Monday, Sept. 23, district parents and friends of Sara Wolman appeared before the Board of Education to make the case to hire Wolman. The district put Joseph Kirk on the agenda as the hire and the board voted to hire Kirk, 5-2. Elizabeth Carr and Sharon Scarpelli voted against the hire. Carr, shortly after the vote, resigned from the board.CLICK HERE...
New Rutgers prof suspended over animal abuse allegations
✅ Xiaobing Zhang was suspended at FSU before coming to Rutgers. ✅ He denied pain relief to 1,500 animals, according to the allegations. ✅ Zhang was hired by Rutgers Medical School to start work Sept. 3. A newly hired Rutgers professor has been placed on paid leave after receiving a...
Bengals Football Team Wins Second Straight, Defeats Lincoln High, on Sept. 26, 35-20
The Bloomfield High football team put together its best offensive performance so far in 2024, defeating Lincoln High School, in Jersey City, 35-20, on Sept. 26. Head coach Mike Carter's team improved to 2-3 on the season, with its second straight victory. The Bengals will be home for the next two games, starting on Oct. 4, when it welcomes East Orange Campus, in a 6:30 p.m. kickoff. The team remains home for its final regular season home game, on Oct. 11, when Paterson Kennedy visits Foley Field, also at 6:30 p.m.TAPInto will have much more on Bloomfield's win, against Lincoln High, coming soon. For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
I oversaw education on Rikers Island. Early mistakes don’t have to define a young person’s life.
For the tens of thousands of New York students who graduated from high school in June, the beginning of the school year also marks the end of their required education. Many of them are pursuing advanced two- and four-year degrees at colleges and universities, while others have enrolled in vocational training programs or are entering the workforce.In some ways, the opportunities for these teenagers seem endless. But as the former superintendent of New York City’s District 79 — the city’s alternative schools district, which includes Rikers Island jail complex — I can assure you that this is certainly not the...
New Jersey requires threat assessment teams, but impact has been hard to measure
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Every New Jersey school is required to have a threat assessment team prepared to respond to school threats, such as the online social media threats several districts received earlier this month.These teams are also tasked with making all schools feel safe, which many experts say is equally or more important for violence prevention than how schools and law enforcement respond to individual threats.The state’s threat assessment law, which required teams to be in place by September 2023, is based on the Secret Service threat assessment...
Glen Rock Board of Education President Sends Letter to Community
GLEN ROCK, NJ - In somewhat of a rare move, the Board of Education president Dr. Damali Robinson sent a letter to the community outlining “acknowledging” public concerns raised at the September 23 board meeting in which they hired a girls basketball coach from outside the district while passing over a coach that had coached the junior varsity team for more than a decade.Likely due to the public uproar, the hired coach declined the job and the board ended up hiring the popular girls junior varsity coach, Sara Wolman, for the girls varsity coach position.CLICK HERE...
Rutgers medical students raise hospital patients' spirits with haircuts, shaves
Enduring a hospital stay is not always easy and some Rutgers medical students are taking a new approach to boost their patients' spirits.Rutgers New Jersey Medical School students are offering patients a haircut and a shave.The Bergen Barbers Ivan Loncar, Hetal Lad, Sowntharya Ayyappan, and Shivani Srivastava are all students at Rutgers."Medicine is holistic, you have to not only be able to take care of your patients, you have to be able to talk to them you have to see them as a full person," Lad said.They are continuing the initiative launched by Vaishali Ravikumar in 2021. She now works...
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