Education Top Stories
By BOBBIE PEER
May 15, 2024
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Rob Pollak, the founder of Pollak Tutors, recently received the esteemed Citizens Bank Community Champion Award, a grant totaling $10,000. In its seventh year, the Citizens Small Business Community Champion Award celebrates businesses making a difference in their ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Rob Pollak, the founder of Pollak Tutors, recently received the esteemed Citizens Bank Community Champion Award, a grant totaling $10,000. In its seventh year, the Citizens Small Business Community Champion Award celebrates businesses making a difference in their ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Rob Pollak, the founder of Pollak Tutors, recently received the esteemed Citizens Bank Community Champion Award, a grant totaling $10,000. In its seventh year, the Citizens Small Business Community Champion Award celebrates businesses making a difference in their ...
YORKTOWN, N.Y.— The Yorktown Central School District held its Tenure Recognition Night on Monday (May 13) and held a public hearing for its adopted 2024-2025 budget, which goes to a vote on Tuesday, May 21. The budget portion of the video begins at around 59 minutes and 45 seconds in. Seventeen ...
BORDENTOWN, NJ — Bordentown Regional High School (BRHS) students can learn more about how to take care of themselves both physically and mentally at a resource fair taking place during school hours this week. The annual Wellness Fair is taking place at BRHS on Friday, May 17 during all lunch ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School announces the Top 10 Graduates for the Class of 2024. Out of a class of 488 students, the top 10 graduates were recognized for their excellence. According to Superintendent Dr. Greg Troxell, “PHS has a proud tradition of academic excellence. I ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District approved the hiring of a new superintendent and a $275,000 a year contract at last night’s board meeting. No one was surprised that the district hired Steven Yanni, 45, an educator with 20 years of experience in education and multiple stints as ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights welcomes a new addition to its educational landscape with the opening of theCoderSchool. Located at 663 Springfield Avenue, Unit 1, this innovative after-school, weekend, and summer camp program offers coding classes for kids aged 7 ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights welcomes a new addition to its educational landscape with the opening of theCoderSchool. Located at 663 Springfield Avenue, Unit 1, this innovative after-school, weekend, and summer camp program offers coding classes for kids aged 7 ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights welcomes a new addition to its educational landscape with the opening of theCoderSchool. Located at 663 Springfield Avenue, Unit 1, this innovative after-school, weekend, and summer camp program offers coding classes for kids aged 7 ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights welcomes a new addition to its educational landscape with the opening of theCoderSchool. Located at 663 Springfield Avenue, Unit 1, this innovative after-school, weekend, and summer camp program offers coding classes for kids aged 7 ...
WOODLAND PARK, NJ - Woodland Park Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michele Pillari has been named Passaic County Superintendent of the Year by the Passaic County Association of School Administrators. Pillari's leadership has been instrumental in fostering a culture of excellence and ...
KENILWORTH, NJ - The annual David Brearley Middle High School Spring Concert was held on Wednesday, May 8. Friends, family and community members enthusiastically came out to see this lively and heart-warming performance. For those who could not make it to the event, the Kenilworth Board of ...
BORDENTOWN, NJ — Bordentown's Michael Domenech recently graduated from the prestigious Governor’s STEM Scholars as one of only 123 New Jersey high school and college students who received a 360° view of New Jersey’s STEM economy through conferences, lab tours, and research. The program is ...
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. - North Salem High School senior Andea Sarno has been awarded the Millennium Scholarship by the New York State Federation of Republican Women. An intern with the North Salem Republican Town Committee, Andea was honored during the NYSFRW’s 105th annual conference, which was held ...
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — The Livingston High School (LHS) chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)—which recently brought a record 79 students to the 2024 New Jersey State Leadership Conference (SLC) in Atlantic City—returned home with a total of 37 state finalists (top 10 placers), ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Naisha Bhagashra, an eighth grader at Heritage Middle School (HMS), received proclamations from the Township of Livingston and the State of New Jersey earlier this week after she qualified to represent the state at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership ...
OLEAN, NY — The African American Center for Cultural Development, 214 N. Barry St., will host a ribbon cutting Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. The building, donated in November 2020, is a permanent home for the not-for-profit which carries out a mission "to value, promote and integrate the rich and ...
TRENTON, NJ – Two bills signed by Governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday could help restore school curriculum, teachers' jobs and athletic programs in more than 140 New Jersey school districts, including Hillaborough, which suffered a cut of $2.7M in state aid for the 2024-25 school year. The first ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Over 30 South Plainfield students were nominated by their respective music teachers and accepted into the Central Jersey Music Educators Association’s (CJMEA) Honors Ensembles this year. The CJMEA Honors Band Festival was held at East Brunswick High School on March 23 ...
MONTVILLE, NJ – The Morris County School Boards Association held its annual Nancy Helbourg awards ceremony and spring celebrations on May 2 at Roxbury High School and several Montville residents were included in the honors. Nicole Smith of Solutions Architecture introduced Sophia Kalliaras, who ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ- After building boats with limited and unique materials, three innovative children walked away with more knowledge, hands-on experience, and even some prizes after The Waldo School’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Competition on Saturday, May 11. Known ...
PARKLAND, FL - Broward County Public Schools has announced the winners of this year’s prestigious National Merit Scholarships -- including a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Arya Gujarathi is among the seven graduating high school seniors awarded $2,500 from the National Merit ...
MADISON, NJ - The Madison Board of Education will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday May 14. The meeting can be viewed via Zoom or YouTube at 7pm View on YouTube HERE View on Zoom HERE passcode; 350764 Get your local news delivered to your inbox for FREE each day. Sign up ...
PARSIPPANY, NJ - Two Parsippany residents have graduated from the Governor's STEM Scholars, a program of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. On Saturday, May 11, 2024, Khushi Prajapati and Lithra Sankari along with 121 other New Jersey high school and college students completed ...
WOODLAND PARK, NJ - Eight teachers were recognized by the Woodland Park Board of Education on Monday. Those who were honored have been recognized with prestigious awards for their contributions to the Woodland Park School District. The Governor's Educator of the Year Award and the Governor's ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Looking for a way to support the young journalists of Westfield High School? You can advertise in, subscribe to or donate to Westfield High’s School award-winning publications. The journalism program is overseen by journalism teacher Shawn McDonald, and it is her sixth year ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ – Public anger over the Board of Education’s recently approved busing plan, which eliminates courtesy busing, brought out a large crowd of unhappy residents to the May 7 Board of Education meeting. In his report, Acting Superintendent of Schools Rob Nixon addressed the new ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—One thing that Steven Yanni has learned in his 20-plus years working in education is that when talking to students, giving chicken nuggets to younger children and pizza to teenagers usually gets them to open up and talk. “The best feedback in the world comes from kids,” said ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - The South Plainfield School District earlier this week announced it will be offering free enrichment camps over the summer. Enrichment camps are grade appropriate and available to South Plainfield students only. Online registration for each week-long camp begins Monday, ...