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  • Campaign touts benefits of inclusive schools

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer A statewide coalition of advocacy groups is promoting inclusive education for students with special needs. Born out of litigation brought by advocates for children with developmental disabilities, the Inclusion Campaign urges the integration of special education students into general education classrooms. Thomas Baffuto, executive director of the North Brunswick-based…

  • Marlboro K-8 moving forward with plan for referendum

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education is moving forward with plans for a construction referendum that, if approved by voters, would allow administrators to expand the district’s half-day kindergarten to a full-day program. The referendum would provide for the expansion of the David C. Abbott Early…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Seton Hall University, South Orange, has named the following students to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester: From Morganville: Kevin Barden, Michael Caputo, Natalia Davie, Alexis Downes, Alexandra La Fata, Lauren Lehan, Andrew Magadia, Catherine Soliman and Laura Weinberg. From Freehold: Kayley Barkalow, Alexis Barker, Giselle Bellia, Mary Bonatakis, Patricia Bonatakis, Matthew Borriello,…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Children of all ages take advantage of a recent snowstorm by bringing their sleds to the hill at Glenwood Cemetery, West Long Branch, on Feb. 17.

  • Brookdale Community College announces new leadership team

    Eight Brookdale Community College administrators have been selected to lead the college’s newly redesigned academic and student services divisions, which will be rolled out this year as part of a campuswide reorganization. The appointments, which were announced in late January, include four academic deans, a new Freehold Township campus dean and a new dean of…

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    KAREN KESTEN Wind creates patterns in a snowdrift in central New Jersey.

  • New Jersey should opt out of PARCC test

    I attended the Jan. 29 public hearing at Jackson Liberty High School in Jackson that was held by the Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey — not as a parent, school administrator or teacher, but just as an observer and a concerned citizen regarding the future education of our children…

  • Congressman is out of step with his district

    I am disturbed by our congressman’s disregard for the civil rights of the men and women of this community. Congressman Chris Smith recently stated that he is a strong believer in traditional marriage, and does not construe homosexual rights as human rights. To add further outrage, Congressman Smith is co-chair on the human rights subcommittee.…

  • School district consolidation makes sense

    I read with interest the fact that the Colts Neck K-8 School District Board of Education has ended the talk of closing the underused Conover Road Elementary School (“Colts Neck Will Not Close School,” News Transcript, Feb. 11). The fact that declining enrollment in the Colts Neck school district had resulted in the under-use of…