Tag: East Windsor Regional School District

  • East Windsor school board filing deadline approaches

    East Windsor school board filing deadline approaches

    Time is running out for would-be candidates to serve on the East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education. The deadline to file a nominating petition for one of four seats on the school board is July 26 at 4 p.m. The nominating petition, which must be signed by 10 registered voters who live in…

  • Hightstown High graduates learn to ‘survive’ and ‘thrive’

    Hightstown High graduates learn to ‘survive’ and ‘thrive’

    Childhood’s end came on a warm summer morning for the Hightstown High School Class of 2021, when the seniors came together for one last time as a class on June 16. The seniors gathered on the baseball diamond at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton to mark Hightstown High School’s 106th annual graduation ceremony. The…

  • Walter C. Black Elementary School residency program will create outdoor learning space

    Walter C. Black Elementary School residency program will create outdoor learning space

    Walter C. Black Elementary School in Hightstown has been awarded an Artists in Education Residency Grant for the 2020-21 school year. Michelle Ruff, second-grade special education teacher, and Mariagrace Welsh, fine arts teacher wrote the grant last year and were notified late last spring that Walter C. Black Elementary was chosen as a recipient, according…

  • Hightstown High School student-athletes to honor memory of athletic director

    Hightstown High School student-athletes to honor memory of athletic director

    Hightstown High School and the East Windsor Regional School District community lost a beloved member of their family on Jan. 21 when Athletic Director (AD) Jim Peto passed away unexpectedly at home at age 42. Peto had been a physical education teacher in the school district since 2004 and was the Hightstown High School varsity…

  • East Windsor Regional students will be in school for first time since March 2020

    East Windsor Regional students will be in school for first time since March 2020

    East Windsor Regional School District students will be back in the classroom in person – using the hybrid instructional model – beginning Jan. 19, school district officials said. It will be the first time that students have been in the classroom since March 2020, when Gov. Phil Murphy closed school buildings to students and staff…

  • East Windsor schools to continue remote learning

    East Windsor schools to continue remote learning

    The East Windsor Regional School District is putting off hybrid in-person instruction until Jan. 19, 2021, because of the increased number of COVID-19 cases reported in the region, Superintendent of Schools Mark Daniels said. The school district, which has opted for remote learning since school opened in September, had planned to move forward with hybrid…

  • Two vie for three seats available on East Windsor regional school board

    Two vie for three seats available on East Windsor regional school board

    With three seats available on the East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education, only two candidates are vying to fill a three-year seat set aside for an East Windsor resident in the Nov. 3 general election. No one has filed to run for a one-year unexpired term for an East Windsor representative, nor for…

  • East Windsor schools push back in-person learning to Nov. 9

    East Windsor schools push back in-person learning to Nov. 9

    East Windsor Regional School District students will be learning remotely for the first two months after they go back to school Sept. 9, based on the latest iteration of the school district’s re-opening plan. The East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education approved the re-opening plan, which administrators hope will eventually bring students and…

  • East Windsor Education Association says staff ‘afraid of’ in-person learning

    East Windsor Education Association says staff ‘afraid of’ in-person learning

    School district officials have put the finishing touches on the East Windsor Regional School District’s re-entry plan for students for the 2020-21 school year, and sent it to the Mercer County Superintendent of Schools and the New Jersey Department of Education for review. The re-opening plan, in anticipation of the first day of school on…