Tag: East Windsor Regional School District

  • Hightstown High School students to have virtual graduation

    Hightstown High School students to have virtual graduation

    Graduation Day, which is the day that the Hightstown High School Class of 2020 has been waiting for since kindergarten, is nearly here – but it won’t be exactly what they had been expecting. The traditional send-off at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton has been canceled because of COVID-19, but East Windsor Regional School…

  • The Rise Pantry: Follow that Milk

    The Rise Pantry: Follow that Milk

    Milk is a favored but sometimes limited commodity at the Rise Pantry. The USDA provides milk to be distributed to Rise-registered families who meet the in-need requirements.  Whenever there is extra, additional clients at the pantry benefit, but lately, an unexpected windfall of milk has appeared. How? Repurposing. Approximately 40% of students enrolled in the…

  • East Windsor schools continue remote learning

    East Windsor schools continue remote learning

    The East Windsor Regional School District will continue its program of remote learning for students through April 5, according to Superintendent of Schools Mark Daniels. Since students will be on spring break from April 6-12, the proposed date to reopen the East Windsor Regional School District is April 13, Daniels said. The new date is…

  • East Windsor school board selects new superintendent

    East Windsor school board selects new superintendent

    After a five-month search, the East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education has named Mark Daniels to be the district’s next superintendent of schools, effective Feb. 1, 2019. Board members appointed Daniels at their Dec. 10 meeting. At present, Daniels is the assistant superintendent for educational services in the Plainfield Public School District in…

  • Candidates make case for election to school board during local event

    Candidates make case for election to school board during local event

    The five candidates running for three available terms on the East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education fielded questions about topics ranging from school security to communications and how the issue of the initial non-renewal, and subsequent renewal, of an elementary school principal’s contract should have been handled during a candidates night last week.…

  • Stakeholders invited to give input on school superintendent profile

    Stakeholders invited to give input on school superintendent profile

    What qualities and characteristics should the next superintendent of schools in the East Windsor Regional School District possess? That’s the question school district officials hope to answer with some input from East Windsor and Hightstown residents at a special forum set for Oct. 1 at Hightstown High School. The public forum, which will take place…

  • Superintendent search suspended after consultant quits

    Superintendent search suspended after consultant quits

    The search for the East Windsor Regional School District’s new superintendent of schools has been delayed, following the resignation this week of the consultant who was leading the search. To replace consultant Ronald Bolandi, who resigned for personal reasons, the East Windsor Regional School District Board of Education hired West Hudson Associates on Monday night…

  • Consultant will seek input during search for school superintendent

    Consultant will seek input during search for school superintendent

    Seeking to find out what parents and other members of the public would like to see in the next superintendent of schools of the East Windsor Regional School District, a special forum has been set for Sept. 24 at the Hightstown High School auditorium. During the forum, which will be held from 7-9 p.m., attendees…

  • East Windsor reconfigures schools for 2018-19 academic year

    East Windsor reconfigures schools for 2018-19 academic year

    East Windsor Regional School District administrators are putting into place the district’s elementary school reconfiguration plan in time for the first day of school on Sept. 6. The plan, which has been in the works for about a year, seeks to balance enrollment in the four elementary schools. The plan will ensure that bilingual students…