Tag: Freehold Borough School District

  • Monroe board sets up ad hoc committee for input after failed referendums

    Monroe board sets up ad hoc committee for input after failed referendums

    MONROE – With two failed referendums proposing the construction of a new middle school, school officials are going back to the drawing board. Board of Education President Kathy Kolupanowich has set up an ad hoc committee welcoming all residents to provide input for what the board’s next steps would be. “We know we need another…

  • Freehold Borough school board presses for more aid

    Freehold Borough school board presses for more aid

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – The members of the Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education are seeking what they believe is the district’s fair share of state aid and to that end they are calling on state officials to properly fund the School Funding Reform Act (SFRA) of 2008. On Jan.…

  • Freehold Borough schools will upgrade security system

    Freehold Borough schools will upgrade security system

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – In a move by the Board of Education that is designed to provide better protection for students and staff members, a new security system will be installed at two locations in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District. On July 7, the board approved the purchase of a WAVE…

  • Freehold school board awards merit bonuses

    Freehold school board awards merit bonuses

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – Administrative achievements in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District have resulted in the issuance of merit pay bonuses. On June 6, the Board of Education approved the payment of merit bonuses to Superintendent of Schools Rocco Tomazic for achieving qualitative merit goals. The merit goals were approved by…

  • Freehold school district still waiting on commissioner’s decision

    Freehold school district still waiting on commissioner’s decision

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – Freehold Borough K-8 School District administrators, Board of Education members, parents, teachers and students, as well as borough residents, are still waiting for New Jersey Commissioner of Education David C. Hespe to make a $32 million decision. District administrators have appealed to Hespe to overturn the decision of…

  • Freehold Borough school board adopts $25M budget

    Freehold Borough school board adopts $25M budget

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – The Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a budget that will pay for the operation of the school district during the 2016-17 school year. Following a discussion among district administrators and board members at an April 25 meeting, a $25.19 million budget that will…

  • Library naming honors educator

    Library naming honors educator

    By Christine Barcia Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The memory of Dennis Levinson will live on in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District. Levinson, who died at the age of 68 in August 2015, was a principal in Freehold Borough’s elementary schools, including the Freehold Learning Center, Dutch Lane Road, for 15 years. On Feb. 22,…

  • Freehold board introduces $25.19M school budget

    Freehold board introduces $25.19M school budget

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer FREEHOLD – The Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a preliminary budget that will pay for the operation of the school district during the 2016-17 school year. Following a discussion among district administrators and board members at a March 7 meeting, a $25.19 million budget that…

  • Freehold Borough will receive boost in state aid

    Freehold Borough will receive boost in state aid

    By Christine Barcia Staff Writer FREEHOLD – The proposed state budget for fiscal year 2017 includes an increase in funding for the Freehold Borough K-8 School District. “We are relieved to see at least this nominal easing of our overall under-adequacy shortfall in state aid. These funds will avoid harmful degradations to our educational programs.…