Tag: Marlboro Board of Education
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School work on ballot in Marlboro
MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education will place a referendum in front of voters on Sept. 26 and ask for approval to make $26.3 million in capital improvements at six schools. Board members voted 5-2 on June 20 to place the question on the ballot on a date that has been…
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Marlboro school board cuts tax levy by $220,000
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a 2017-18 budget that reduces the amount of money to be collected in local taxes from 2016-17. The 2016-17 budget totaled $90.91 million and was supported by a tax levy of $75.12 million paid by Marlboro’s residential and…
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Marlboro school budget proposes lower tax levy
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a tentative budget for the 2017-18 school year that proposes a lower tax levy than the amount that was collected during the 2016-17 school year. The 2017-18 budget totals $91.2 million and will be supported by a tax…
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Renovations paving way for full-day kindergarten in Marlboro
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District is making progress toward implementing a full-day kindergarten program beginning in September. In April 2016, the Board of Education appropriated $1.8 million to renovate classrooms at several elementary schools. Renovations specifically aimed at accommodating kindergarten pupils are taking place at the Dugan and…
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Split Marlboro school board taps Mattos as president for 2017
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – Debbie Mattos has been elected to her second consecutive term as president of the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education. The board held its reorganization meeting on Jan. 3, during which Randy Heller, Robert Daniel and Dara Enny were sworn in to begin serving the three-year terms…
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School boards association approves Marlboro proposal
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA) has passed a resolution that was submitted by the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education and calls for a change in the adjudication process for disputes involving pupils who require special education services. More than 140 representatives of New Jersey…
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Marlboro voters reject referendum for school upgrades
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – Voters rejected a $26.3 million construction referendum that the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education placed before them on Nov. 8. According to results posted online by the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office, the referendum question was defeated by a count of 9,638 no votes to 8,453 yes…
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$26M in school upgrades on Nov. 8 ballot in Marlboro
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education will place a $26.3 million referendum in front of voters on Nov. 8. If the referendum is approved by a simple majority, infrastructure upgrades will be completed at six of the district’s eight schools. Administrators have said the multi-million dollar…
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Board considers proposal for Hindi language instruction
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – Representatives of the Marlboro Hindi School have made a proposal to the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education to teach Hindi to students at the Marlboro Middle School and the Marlboro Memorial Middle School. Hindi is a language spoken in India, Pakistan and other south Asian countries.…