Education

PATERSON, NJ - The Board of Education voted to discontinue the mask mandate in schools and district buildings at their workshop meeting on Wednesday. The Board voted in favor of wearing masks optionally starting Thursday, May 12.

“The Board of Education has come to their decision after long and careful consideration,” Superintendent of Schools Eileen Shafer ...

NEWARK, NJ - The Pillar College community celebrated Dr. Rupert A. Hayles, Jr. inauguration as the institution’s new President, replacing the previous President and now current Chancellor of Pillar College, Dr. David E. Schroeder on Apr. 28.

Chancellor Schroeder in his speech quipped “I am supposed to pass a baton to you, and I don’t run very well, and I don’t know ...

PATERSON, NJ - Ms. Carmen Coldiron’s second grade class at Dr. Hani Awadallah School is one of 20 winners of the Imagine Learning Hero Contest, a math challenge that took place throughout the month of April and included classes in Pre-K to second grade, Paterson Public Schools officials have announced.

Every day, the students would log on to partake in lessons where two ...

PATERSON, NJ – In celebration of Labor History Month, the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark will donate 300 copies of The 1913 Paterson Silk Strike: The Children’s Story to Paterson Public Schools and the Paterson Library, officials announced on Friday.

The book for young readers, fourth grade reading level, is a history of immigrant workers who came together to ...

PATERSON, NJ – Superintendent of Schools Eileen Shafer visited Public School No. 21 on Monday to congratulate students on collecting $1,100 for UNICEF’s efforts to aid children affected by the crisis in Ukraine.

The school started the collection two weeks ago, with students asked to bring one dollar from home and teachers and staff asked to bring $10. Throughout the two weeks, ...

PATERSON, NJ - Martine Grant, a teacher at John F. Kennedy High School’s Schools of Business, Technology, Marketing, and Finance (BTMF), has been selected to study the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II at the site of one of the 10 concentration camps.  

Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Grant will spend six ...

PATERSON, NJ - Sobering realities, debunked misconceptions, and information on how to identify victims were all a part of online workshops for staff on human trafficking in Paterson held by Paterson Public Schools on Thursday in partnership with the FBI’s Victim Services Division.  

“What we have been learning is that anyone can be a victim of human trafficking, but ...

PATERSON, NJ – The Paterson Healing Collective visited the Paterson Board of Education earlier this week to pitch an afterschool program for Paterson students. The program would be specifically geared towards the residents of the First and Fourth Wards where Public School No. 28, and Public School No. 6, or Frank Lautenberg School, will host the pilot program.

“This program deals ...

PATERSON, NJ -  Paterson Public Schools officials announced on Wednesday that International High School Senior Isabela Gonzalez has been accepted to Harvard University. Gonzalez is the latest in a series of district students to be accepted to elite schools and she is the district’s tenth student to be accepted at an Ivy League university in 10 years.  

“As ...