Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Education essentials to be discussed
PLUMSTED — Setting a firm educational foundation is vital to ensuring future academic and social success. With that in mind, the New Egypt Primary School, Evergreen Road, will host a special session on the topic of “Progressing Through Primary School” 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 11. “This event is to provide valuable, musthave information for parents of…
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Writer is concerned about the loss of courtesy busing
Being a parent and a resident of Plumsted, I would like to make sure everyone understands what courtesy busing is and the effect of cutting it from the Plumsted School District’s 2010-11 budget. Courtesy busing is transporting kindergarten through eighth-grade students who live within 1 to 2 miles of a school, but still are currently…
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on campus
Samantha Lyn Clay, daughter of Stephen and Nancy Clay of Howell, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Rider University, Lawrenceville, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in communications. She is a 2006 graduate of Freehold Township High School. Scott Muller, a history education major from Howell, was…
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NJSBA Survey finds almost all school districts expect layoffs
Nearly 93 percent of New Jersey’s school districts expect to lay off staff — with the large majority of those districts looking at teaching staff reductions — due to state aid cuts in the coming school year, according to a survey by the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA). According to a press release, NJSBA…
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Board seeking maximum allowable increase in taxes
The Plumsted Board of Education is recommending a school budget at the maximum tax increase legally allowed. While citizens are suffering from the impact of the Great Recession, our board is unwilling to show any innovation or out-ofthe box thinking on this year’s school budget to give homeowners some relief from the unrelenting annual homeowners’…
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Residents speak out about school budget
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Who is going to want to be a teacher? That was the question asked by resident Gus Acevedo during a recent public hearing concerning the 2010-11 budget that has been proposed by the Jackson School District Board of Education. Acevedo, who is a teacher in another district, is…
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Taxpayers are living in the real world
Ateacher from Jackson earning a salary of $50,000 with a good health and benefits package admits she loves her job and enjoys her summer months at home as a stay-at-home mom (“Gov. Christie’s Comments Are Upsetting to Teacher,” Tri- Town News, Letters to the Editor, April 8). She implied that her husband is also gainfully…
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Cuts in educational aid is a real hot-button issue
GREG BEAN I’ve written before about how much I enjoy the conversational aspect of this column, and my readers aren’t shy about giving me their take on something I’ve written. CODA Sure, some of the responses are beyond the pale, like the guy who recently said he hopes I end up destitute and eating dog…
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Let the public be heard
IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN After weeks of debate, discussion and public hearings, New Jersey residents will have their say on budgets that have been proposed by local boards of education in the April 20 school election. This has been a budget season unlike any other I can remember in almost 30 years in this…
