• Redbird girls looking forward to CJ track meet

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Allentown junior distance runner Caroline Ticse is working her way back from shin splints that she suffered at the end of the indoor track and field season when she reached the Meet of Champions. Senior pole-vaulter Samantha O’Brien recalls missing advancing out of the NJSIAA Group III Central sectionals into the…

  • Jersey Mustangs are tournament winners

    The Jersey Mustangs have proven to be a travel baseball team that is tough to beat. This team made up of youngsters from Monmouth and Ocean counties has won a pair of recent tournaments. First the Jersey Mustangs won the Jack Cust Diamond Nation Spring Fever Tournament in Flemington, Hunterdon County. Top teams come to…

  • NJSBA: Eliminate decades of laws that favor unions

    The New Jersey School Boards Association is calling for changes in decades of laws that it contends give organized labor the upper hand in school district bargaining and often prevent management from making personnel decisions that best meet the needs of students. “We urge the administration and the state Legislature to act on proposals that…

  • School Choice Program assessed in light of school funding woes

    BOE reviews enrollment numbers, requirements for students coming from other districts BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District has choices to make regarding its Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. The Choice Program allows students living within a 20-mile radius of Allentown High School to attend the Upper Freehold Regional…

  • New tuition assistance rules for educators

    It is now state law that public school employees may only attend fully accredited educational institutions in order to be eligible for tuition assistance. State Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (all R-Monmouth and Mercer) expressed pleasure that a bill they sponsored was signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie last…

  • Millstone schools expected to cut almost $1.3 million

    School district leaning toward appealing township’s decision BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Board of Education is expected to cut over $1.2 million from its budget, after voters rejected the original spending plan at the polls on April 20. The Township Committee voted to reduce the tax levy for the school district’s base budget…

  • BOE calls cafeteria food quality into question

    District’s food service provider contract up for renewal BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Board of Education president refused to hear a presentation from the school district’s food service provider. President Tom Foley noted fried dough with sugar is among the foods with no nutritional value that Nutri-Serve Food Management Co. provides to schoolchildren.…

  • U.F. officials wanted teachers to do more for budget woes

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — Residents waited over three hours on May 12 to voice their opinions about how Upper Freehold and Allentown should deal with the defeated 2010 Upper Freehold Regional School District (UFRSD) budget. When the public session of the meeting held at the Upper Freehold Municipal Building finally opened, many…

  • Millstone teachers union will not reopen contract

    BOE ordered to cut $1.2 million in staff, programs, services BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Millstone Township Education Association (MTEA) will not renegotiate the contract agreement it struck with the Board of Education just days before the district learned state aid would be cut 29.5 percent. Board attorney Michael Gross sent a letter…

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