Education

STAFFORD - The Southern Ocean Volleyball Club recently announced that Matt Maxwell has committed to continue his athletic and academic career at Belmont Abbey College. Matt will be a member of the Men's Volleyball program and join Liam Maxwell and Brennan Davis, his former high school teammates from Southern Regional High School .

Matt is a senior as Southern and is one of New ...

UNION, NJ – Connecticut Farms Elementary School students saw ‘beyond the laces’ when authors Bob Salomon and Rick Young visited the school on Friday to inspire through kindness.

Salomon, a retired corrections officer, talked with students about “Beyond the Laces”, the book he co-wrote, as a story of America’s greatest pastime in which parents and their ...

SUMMIT, Nj - Dozens of Summit taxpayers offered their input to Summit Superintendent of Schools June Chang and the Summit Board of Education at a marathon, four-hour October Board of Education meeting following Chang’’s recommendation to move from the combination of a free, Half-Day and tuition-based, Full-Day Kindergarten (FDK) program to a universal free, Full-Day Kindergarten ...

BLOOMFIELD – The Bloomfield Municipal Alliance Committee (BMAC) and the Bloomfield Department of Health and Human Services are sponsoring "An Evening with Dianne Grossman" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, the final session in a four-part series for parents on raising teens in the digital age.

The free event runs from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Bloomfield Middle School, 60 Huck Road, and is ...

BLOOMFIELD – The Bloomfield Municipal Alliance Committee (BMAC) and the Bloomfield Department of Health and Human Services are sponsoring "An Evening with Dianne Grossman" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, the final session in a four-part series for parents on raising teens in the digital age.

The free event runs from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Bloomfield Middle School, 60 Huck Road, and is ...

CRANFORD, NJ – A Union County College honor student from Union shared her story and introduced Governor Phil Murphy at a recent press conference to announce the recipients of the Community College Opportunity Grant.

Kaitlyn Veliz, of Union, was joined by New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Zakiya Smith Ellis for the announcement.

The grant will allow eligible students in New ...

SOMERSET, NJ: The Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) framework used in Franklin schools to address behavioral and disciplinary issues is getting results. Compared to 2016-2017, discipline referrals across the district showed clear declines for the 2017-2018 school year.

Discipline write-ups were down almost 22 percent at the high school level, the middle schools saw more than a 36 ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ -- Michael Botting, a senior at St. Joseph’s High School in Metuchen has been chosen as a semifinalist in the 2019 Merit Scholarship competition.

Botting, a Piscataway resident joins 16,000 other seniors in the annual competition, now in its 64th year of awarding scholarships to high achieving high school graduates.

“To be considered for an award, semifinalists ...

RANDOLPH, NJ- The Randolph BOE welcomed RHS Principal Debbie Iosso and Vice Principal Matthew Agrati to their October 16 business session to discuss chronic absenteeism, which was identified by the state as an issue affecting just over 10% of RHS students.  Any RHS student with unexcused absences on 18 or more of the days that school is in session is considered “chronically ...

LITTLE FALLS NJ - Students from Passaic Valley Regional High School were among students from 10 high schools from around New Jersey who were invited to Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill on Oct. 18.

The visit was part of Nokia’s community outreach program to encourage young people to learn science, technology and engineering and math, so that they will be attracted ...