Education Top Stories
By GABRIELLA DRAGONE
July 8, 2024
HAMILTON, NJ - The Hamilton Township School District has a number of positions open for educators and other school professionals. Positions to be filled include a District Student Assistant Coordinator, ESL Teacher, Elementary Academic Intervention Teacher, Elementary Enrichment Gifted Teacher, ...
NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- A message from the superintendent. Dear North Plainfield Community ~ Now that we have reached the end of another successful school year, I would like to extend my warmest wishes to each and every one of you for a truly wonderful summer. This is a ...
MONTVILLE, NJ - The Montville Township High School [MTHS] Class of 2024 Salutatorian is Aarav Mulinti. The senior said he was somewhat surprised to learn that he was awarded the Salutatorian opportunity to speak before his peers at the MTHS graduation ceremony. “I worked hard in high school,” ...
Social media has become an integral part of daily life in the digital age, especially for the younger generation. Platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook provide endless content streams, encouraging connectivity and creativity, but they also present significant mental health ...
RAHWAY, NJ — There will be a Rahway Board of Education (BOE) caucus meeting this Tuesday, July 9, held in the Rahway High School Performing Arts Center (high school auditorium), located at 1012 Madison Ave. The meeting opens in public at 5:30 p.m. before immediately recessing to private session.
CLARK, NJ — The Clark Board of Education (BOE) will meet this Monday, July 8, for its regular monthly meeting. The meeting will open at 5:30 p.m. in the Media Center of the Arthur L. Johnson High School, located at 365 Westfield Ave. The meeting will then immediately proceed to Executive ...
PATERSON, NJ - Bassima Mustafa has been celebrated for her 34 years of dedicated teaching and extensive contributions to the community. Since beginning her career in 1990, Mustafa has demonstrated unwavering commitment to the education and development of her students, officials said. Mustafa, ...
Lakeland High School valedictorian, Kris Dominic, and salutatorian Tala Franklin were recognized for their academic achievement at the June 13 Board of Education meeting. “May your future be as bright as your accomplishments, and may you continue to reach new heights in all of your endeavors,” ...
SCRANTON, PA -- Scotch Plains residents were among more than 1,650 students who were named to The University of Scranton's Dean's List for the 2024 spring semester. The Dean's List recognizes students for academic excellence. A student must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better with a minimum ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - The 23rd Annual Somers Education Foundation Golf Outing was held on June 10 at Anglebrook Golf Club! More than 60 golfers participated and raised over $16,000 for SEF, which provides grants and scholarships to the Somers Central School District. In its nearly 30-year history, the ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Rising senior Darcy Bialick has been officially sworn in as the Livingston Public Schools (LPS) student representative to the Livingston Board of Education (LBOE), whose members congratulated Bialick and welcomed her to their dais during their final meeting of the 2023-2024 school ...
MAHOPAC, N.Y,. - Local students Samantha Cardinali, Ava Florez, Faith Maria Mahoskey, Kayla Merrill, Matthew Risley, Samantha Rosaforte, Cassidy Ryan, and Cassandra Sciarra gathered at Four Brothers restaurant in Mahopac to receive $500 scholarships from the Greater Mahopac-Carmel Chamber of ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ - Academy For Information Technology alumnus Ryan Agnello has been selected for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship Program. He is one of just 40 students chosen by Television Academy members from across the country for the 2024 Summer Internship Program. The ...
HACKETTSTOWN, NJ — South Amboy resident Kristi Kulcsar was among the 348 graduating students of Centenary University who were awarded degrees at the school's 149th commencement on the University’s Hackettstown campus. Kristi Kulcsar, Master of Arts in Happiness Studies Centenary ...
CLARK, NJ — The Clark Board of Education (BOE) will meet this Monday, July 8, for its regular monthly meeting. The meeting will open at 5:30 p.m. in the Media Center of the Arthur L. Johnson High School, located at 365 Westfield Ave. The meeting will then immediately proceed to Executive ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - The Justin Veatch Fund recently awarded six new $1,200 music scholarships to graduating high school seniors at an awards program at Yorktown Town Hall. The six, chosen among 19 applicants from 11 high schools, included Noah Volkman of Granite Springs. This is the 16th year The ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Get to know more about members of the Somers High School Class of 2024! Alexis Herbert What interests you most? Going to the gym after school. Favorite comfort food? Chicken or steak What is something that most people don’t know about you? I adopted my own cat ...
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. - A pair of North Salem residents were recently honored for their outstanding academic achievements! Merit Scholarship North Salem’s Michael Bisaillion will be attending Iona University in the fall, majoring in Finance, and was a recipient of one of the school’s prestigious ...
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ – Alexander Ivanov, Nora Gray and Asrith Katragadda, each members of the Robbinsville Class of 2024, and all heading to prestigious colleges in the fall, have been named as National Merit Scholars. They are among more than 2,900 winners of National Merit Scholarships, which are ...
KENILWORTH, NJ - The Kenilworth Board of Education is scheduled to hold its next meeting on Monday, July 15, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. This will be the regular monthly meeting, and it will be held in the Board of Education Conference Room at David Brearley Middle High School. Purpose: The Board of ...
Social media has become an integral part of daily life in the digital age, especially for the younger generation. Platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook provide endless content streams, encouraging connectivity and creativity, but they also present significant mental health ...
MONTVILLE, NJ - The Montville Board of Education highlighted the accomplishments of high school students and recently retired teachers, as well as discussed topics that are important to those in the school system at its last meeting. The June 18 meeting began with the High School ...
PARKLAND, FL- Students at Parkland public schools performed well on the 2024 F.A.S.T. test. Results were released this past week, and all Parkland schools performed significantly above statewide averages in both English and Math. A sampling of results from Parkland schools includes the ...
CAMDEN – LaRodge Johnson-Miller, who is majoring in both marketing and photography at Rutgers University-Camden, will be honored by City Council on Tuesday for her selection for the 2024-25 Newman Civic Fellowship. The year-long fellowship sponsored by Campus Compact recognizes students at ...
FLORHAM PARK, NJ - The University of Hartford is pleased to announce that Erol Yuksel of Florham Park has been named to the President's List for the spring 2024 semester. The Dean's List recognizes students achieving superior academic standing. The requirement, with some exceptions, is a grade ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Escargot are family, not food. Eighth-grade students studying French at Somers Middle School adopted “snails” as part of their year-end review. The snails were actually shells provided by their teacher that students could then decorate to make their own. Some chose to paint their ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. - A number of local students have been recognized for their academic achievements at colleges across the country! Graduation Adelphi University Nicholas Tobin Hamilton College Jacob Piazza Muhlenberg College Stephen Krug Rochester Institute of Technology Alexa ...
Two Newark high school students placed in the top five of the 2024 National Speech & Debate Tournament, a competition that drew more than 6,700 students from 1,500 high school across the country. In the “Prose” category, Amaya Wilson of North Star Academy's Washington Park High School ranked ...
ROCHESTER, NY -- The following local students were named to the Dean's List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the spring semester of the 2023-2024 academic year. Full-time degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - The Bridgewater-Raritan board of education said goodbye to over two dozen retiring faculty and staff members. "It's a special night, honoring those retiring from the school district," said superintendent of schools Robert Beers. "Many of them have dedicated 25 years or more to ...