Education
By STEPHANIE A FAUGHNAN
May 11, 2021STAFFORD, NJ - Authorities estimate that a group of between 300-350 people gathered yesterday in support of Erin Pein, a suspended Stafford Township school nurse. Pein acknowledged she was one of three individuals whose contract was not renewed when the Board of Education came back from closed session last night.
“I am still suspended without pay,” shared Pein. “I am a member ...
STAFFORD, NJ — Stafford Superintendent of Schools George Chiadiac has issued directives for those who plan to protest before the district’s Board of Education meeting today.
Protesters are expected to gather at 4:30 p.m. at the Stafford Township Performing Arts Center in support of Erin Pein, a school nurse who was suspended after she refused to wear a mask. Her supporters applaud ...
NEW JERSEY — For the last fourteen months, New Jerseyans have been in the midst of the worst global pandemic in most of our lifetimes. The number of positive cases of COVID-19 in NJ has just recently reached the 1 million mark. This is one out of every nine people in the state. Just over 25,000 have died due to complications from COVID, while all of us have been suffering under forced ...
TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Murphy reported during his COVID briefing on Wednesday that effective May 19, the state will lift the prohibition on interstate indoor youth competitions. Additionally, he said that only 16 school districts are still all remote.
"We continue to work to see every school return to in-person instruction. At the beginning of March, 142 districts were ...
OCEAN COUNTY, NJ – A 2021 list released by U.S. News & World Report last week ranks high schools both nationally and statewide. The study considered 424 public high schools throughout New Jersey and used data from the 2018-2019 school year.
Most of Ocean County’s high schools appeared in the report, with a couple notably absent. Neither the Marine Academy for the Environment ...
STAFFORD — A local, Stafford Township School District nurse found it extremely hard to witness children wearing masks all day long in school. Her conviction became too strong to continue to keep quiet on the matter.
When she decided to do something about it, she got suspended from her job in the Stafford School district.
Nurse Erin Pein has been ...
NEW JERSEY — In the year of coronavirus, school district superintendent salaries increased 2.9% statewide to a median cost of $174,689, up from $169,689 the year before, recently released state Education Department data show.
Southern Regional Superintendent Craig Henry makes $226,977 in 2020-21, statewide records indicate. His contract expires 6/30/2024.
Stafford ...
CHARLOTTE, NC — Evan and Miranda Henken (formerly Dougherty) first met and began dating during high school. The couple both attended and graduated from Southern Regional in 2016. Evan and Miranda have been together for 5 years and tied the knot in October 2020.
After high school they both moved to Virginia and attended Ferrum College. Evan graduated with a Bachelor's ...
Schools get details of plan to postpone standardized tests and word on what to expect in the new school year.
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The Murphy administration has wrapped up its plans to postpone ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Joseph Postiglione, who teaches non-verbal autistic students in third to fifth grade at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School, wants to help his pupils build an outdoor courtyard that will be “their own comfortable place” and he will teach them “valuable life and social skills along the way.”
Postiglione ...
