Education
By ELISE PHILLIPS MARGULIS
July 28, 2025
TRENTON, NJ – The New Jersey Department of Education announced that it is awarding two grants totaling nearly $3.75 million to support local school districts and charter schools as they implement initiatives to improve literacy in the early grades. The Millburn school system received a $13,530 NJ ...
MILLBURN, NJ – The July 21 Board of Education meeting began with presentations about district and board happenings. Chrystie Young, Director of STEM at Millburn schools; Catherine Alvarez, the new Director of Student Personnel Services & Guidance at MHS and Bill Loughran, the Interim Principal ...
EVANSTON, IL – The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the 800 final recipients of its scholarship in this last round. Millburn High School's Laetitia Huang was selected for this very competitive honor. She plans to study Investment Banking.Huang received the Indiana University ...
MILLBURN, NJ – This past year at Millburn High School, a spark was lit in the eyes of the students. This sort of liveliness is rare for Generation Z students because, this time, it’s not caused by the galvanizing nature of a social media trend nor the excitement of a video game release. Instead, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Millburn's administrators and central office staff gathered on July 1 to kick off the new academic year with a welcome breakfast meet and greet. The event offered an opportunity to connect, engage and set the tone for the exciting year ahead. This year's theme, New Adventures, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – On June 27, the Millburn Board of Education gathered for a retreat to discuss their plans and strategies for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year. The session included presentations by Dr. Kate Diskin and BOE President Kris Heinrichs, outlining deliverables and setting clear metrics to ...
MILLBURN, NJ – On June 25, Millburn High School's Class of 2025 graduated. Angie Liu and Samantha Rose gave Highest Honor Speeches, which can be found HERE.See above for Highest Honors and Honor students lists. Thank you, Michael Feldman for the photos.Congrats to the Class of 2025!
MILLBURN, NJ – The June 16 Board of Education (BOE) meeting began with a series of recognitions:Aarna Padri, a student from Millburn Middle School, was honored as the winner of a bus safety poster contest, themed “Safety First, Safety Always.” Her design was submitted to a national competition, ...
MILLBURN, NJ — US Representative Mikie Sherrill recently announced that two Millburn students will attend one of the most prestigious military academies in the country.Sherrill, who was a US Navy helicopter pilot, met with 24 students from the state’s 11th congressional district to congratulate ...
EAST LANSING, MI – Odyssey of the Mind, an international creative problem-solving competition, has challenged children to think differently and solve complex problems creatively for 50 years. The 2024-2025 school year began with over 22,000 teams competing across the United States and in dozens of ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the June 2 Board of Education (BOE) meeting, the Board of Education presented Millburn’s seven newly-initiated Eagle Scouts with an award, recognizing the group for their outstanding leadership and community service efforts.“This significant accomplishment marks you as a leader of ...
MILLBURN/BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ – The Isadora Seibert Foundation awarded $1,500 each to four students from Millburn High School (MHS) and Governor Livingston High School (GLHS) in Berkeley Heights. Isadora graduated from Millburn High School in 2006 and from Ramapo College in 2010, before becoming a ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Young Minds Big Ideas (YMBI) is a youth-led nonprofit founded by high school junior Ruhaan Munjuluri. The Millburn chapter is led by Ryan Chen and Arin Kulkarni. According to Munjuluri, “On May 18, 130 attendees, six expert judges and a powerful lineup of student changemakers ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Over the past few years, a problem the Board of Education has been seeking to explain is the departure of our students, specifically those who choose to enroll in a private institution rather than continue their trajectory through Millburn Schools. As such, frequent updates are ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ –The Pingry School recently announced that 29 students in the Class of 2025 have been inducted into the Cum Laude Society. Seven of the students are Short Hills residents.The Cum Laude Society was established in 1906 as the secondary school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, the country’s ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ – Short Hills residents and twins, Noah and Zach Shoman, both seniors at Newark Academy (NA) — an independent school for grades 6-12 in Livingston, NJ — have committed to fencing at the Division I collegiate level.The NA community celebrated Noah’s commitment to NCAA Division I ...
MILLBURN, NJ – The Board of Education (BOE) kicked off Monday’s meeting by congratulating Deerfield Elementary School Custodian Dan Davis on being named Cintas Corporation Custodian of the Year. Superintendent Dr. Kate Diskin read aloud a proclamation in light of his remarkable achievement. The ...
TARRYTOWN, NY/UNION, NJ – Qianheng (Hendry) Xu won First Place in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics category at the prestigious International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) this week. According to its website, “ISEF is one of the most prestigious high school science fairs in the ...
MILLBURN, NJ – On Friday, May 9, Millburn High School (MHS) held a commitment day for collegiate athletes. According to MHS Athletic Director Christopher Drechsel, “The NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association] has eliminated National Letters of Intent, so ‘signing days’ are not an official ...
EVANSTON, IL – The National Merit Scholar Corporation (NMSC) announced its College-Sponsored Merit $2,500 Scholarship Winners, and the list included three Short Hills students.Dvita Bhattacharya, a student at Kent Place School in Summit, received a $2,500 scholarship paid by the NMSC’s own funds.
CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA – Several Millburn students traveled to Chantilly, Virginia to compete in the Math and Computer Science category at the National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS). Daniel Han won 3rd Place. His research project was called “Mathematical Modeling of T-Cell Mediated ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Following the resignations and retirements of numerous administrators throughout the district and amidst the Board of Education (BOE)’s ongoing administrative restructuring, Millburn Township Public Schools has been left with holes in its administration. Most notably, all the ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the April 21 Board of Education Meeting, Millburn High School Art Teacher Linda Kim shared a presentation alongside Millburn’s very own 2025 Scholastic National Gold Award Winners – Obenewaa Frimpomaa, Reagan Heinrichs, Yuvi Chaudhary and Esther Hong. The presentation displayed ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Ever since Deerfield Elementary School Custodian Dan Davis became a finalist in the Cintas Custodian of the Year contest at the end of March, everyone in the township from Superintendent Dr. Kate Diskin to students' parents to residents without children in the school district have ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the April 7 Board Meeting, the Co-Presidents of the Millburn High School Psychology Club expressed their disappointment at the forced delay of the club’s Pie for a Purpose fundraiser, an annual event that involves students throwing pies in teachers’ faces. The fundraiser’s ...
MILLBURN, NJ — Every year, Holocaust survivor Mark Schonwetter, 91, visits a school in Millburn and shares his experiences during the Holocaust. He also talks at other schools and corporations around the country to spread the word that people need to love one another and never hate. This year, he ...
TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) recently compiled a report of all the schools in all the districts in the state. Several statistics in the introduction include that Millburn High School (MHS) has a student-to-teacher ratio of 10:1, the average teacher has 13.7 years of ...
MILLBURN, NJ – If you have any affiliation with Millburn Township Public Schools, then you’ve heard of the ongoing administrative organizational adjustments. At the March 24 Board of Education (BOE) meeting, Superintendent Dr. Diskin explained the changes that are being implemented across the ...
MILLBURN, NJ -- Deerfield Head Custodian, Dan Davis, was quite surprised when Deerfield Principal Kelly Salazar announced at an assembly last week that Davis is a finalist in the “Custodian of the Year” contest sponsored by Cintas Corporation. Cintas representatives attended the assembly and gave ...
UNION, NJ – Last weekend, thirteen Millburn High School Science Research Program students competed at the 2025 Terra North Jersey STEM Fair (TNJSF) and did very well. Awards earned by MHS students at TNJSF:Qianheng (Hendry) Xu - ISEF Grand Prize Winner, ISEF Trip Award Finalist, Bioinformatics and ...