Tag: Mill Lake Elementary School

  • Ad Hoc Committee will take a look at restructuring grade levels to address unhoused students in Monroe

    Ad Hoc Committee will take a look at restructuring grade levels to address unhoused students in Monroe

    MONROE – The Ad Hoc Committee formed to address student growth in the Monroe Township School District is hard at work. Louis Masters, chairman of the committee, updated the Board of Education at a meeting on Sept. 4 on the board’s progress after two committee meetings. With two failed referendums proposing the construction of a…

  • Monroe girl gives back to nonprofits that helped her through cancer diagnosis

    Monroe girl gives back to nonprofits that helped her through cancer diagnosis

    MONROE — Four nonprofit organizations helped uplift Avery Moskowitz and her family after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma five years ago. To repay their help, Avery, who is now 8 years old and a second-grader at Mill Lake Elementary School in Monroe, held a fundraiser for A Moment of Magic Foundation, Friends Are…

  • Monroe officials propose two new schools to handle enrollment growth

    Monroe officials propose two new schools to handle enrollment growth

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MONROE — School officials have whittled their focus from 13 parcels of land to two that could potentially be the sites for the construction of a much-needed new middle school and new elementary school to address student enrollment growth in the next five to 10 years. Monroe Township currently has…

  • Officials propose ways to handle increased student enrollment in Monroe

    Officials propose ways to handle increased student enrollment in Monroe

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MONROE — Some 427 new students are projected to come into the Monroe Township School District next school year, according to a recent demographic study. “Student enrollment has been growing leaps and bounds,” Schools Superintendent Michael Kozak said. “It is [taxing] on our available resources.” Nine years ago, the student population…

  • Brownies send ‘sweet’ message to police officers

    Brownies send ‘sweet’ message to police officers

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer With the recent negativity surrounding police departments across the country, Brownie Girl Scout Troop 83845 of Monroe Township did their part in sending a sweet reminder that Blue Lives Matter. Members of the troop, who are 7 and 8 years old, gathered together funds from their annual cookie drives and…