Tag: Monroe School District
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Challenges lie ahead as Monroe School District grapples with student enrollment growth, limited revenue sources
MONROE – The Monroe School District faced a tough budget year for 2020-21, and next year will be even tougher with depleting surplus, no banked cap, student enrollment growth, special education costs, and facility needs. That is not even factoring the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, school officials said. “It is very challenging right…
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Increases in Jamesburg tuition and Falcon Care fees expected as Monroe faces difficult school budget year
MONROE – Monroe Schools Superintendent Dori Alvich prefaced administrators only “needs” can be considered in the 2020-21 school budget not any “wants” as they started putting together their department budgets. “This was a very difficult budget to put together,” she said. “One of the things [Business Administrator Michael] Gorski has talked about many times over…
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Monroe school officials discuss challenges with state commissioner of education visit
MONROE – District challenges with state funding, aging facilities and increased enrollment were topics of discussion during a recent visit from Dr. Lamont Repollet, New Jersey commissioner of education. Repollet, along with State Sen. Linda Greenstein, (D-Mercer, Middlesex), Assemblyman Dan Benson (D-Mercer, Middlesex), and Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer, Middlesex), Middlesex County School Superintendent Kyle Anderson…
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Monroe community members to hold gun reform forum April 23
Indivisible of Monroe will hold a School Safety Common Sense Gun Reform Forum from 7-9 p.m. on April 23 at the Monroe Township Senior Center, 12 Halsey Reed Road, Monroe. Members of Monroe Township High School, the Monroe Township Police Department, Moms Demand Action and the Monroe Township School District will participate. For more information,…
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Schools collect more than 60 tons of food for county food bank
School districts in Woodbridge, East Brunswick and Old Bridge collected 12,850, 12,000 and 10,700 pounds of food, respectively, for the county food bank in the past year. The East Brunswick, Monroe and Perth Amboy districts had 100 percent of their schools participating in the food drive, which netted 135,000 pounds – or 64.5 tons –…
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Monroe municipal tax rate to remain stable in 2017
By Kathy Chang Staff Writer MONROE — Residents will not see an increase in the municipal portion of their 2017 property tax bill, which Monroe Township Mayor Gerald W. Tamburro said is the result of residents, employees, volunteers and members of the township’s boards and commissions working together for the betterment of the community. The…
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Monroe board takes long view on students’ success
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MONROE — Schools Superintendent Michael Kozak and the members of the Board of Education engaged in a candid discussion about standardized testing and assessments before the board voted on a resolution about graduation requirements. Board member Jill Demaio said regulations written by the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) currently state that…
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Student Says: Fifth graders help fight hunger
The following letter was written by Monroe Township High School junior Jennifer Du as part of her work for the school’s Honor Society. Who says elementary school students are too young to help fight hunger? Since the beginning of this year, Monroe Township fifth graders have been proving that anyone, both young and old, can…