Tag: Woodbridge School District
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Students at Woodbridge Middle School are back home since renovation project began
WOODBRIDGE – Since construction of a new elementary school and an addition and renovations to a middle school began two years ago, milestones of the multi-million dollar project have been celebrated along the way in the Woodbridge School District. On Jan. 7, Schools Superintendent Robert Zega said while work is still being done, a huge…
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Full-day kindergarten a collaborative effort in Woodbridge
WOODBRIDGE — It was a monumental accomplishment when some 1,000 youngsters began their education as full-time kindergarten students earlier this month. That result was the first for the Woodbridge school district. In March 2017, voters overwhelmingly approved a $57.7 million bond referendum, which moved forward construction of a new elementary school, renovation of a middle school,…
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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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Former Woodbridge teacher agrees to suspension
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Teaching certificates for a former Avenel Street School 4 & 5 principal, who was one of the educators named in the Woodbridge School District cheating scandal in 2012, have been suspended for six months by the New Jersey Department of Education State Board of Examiners. Dara Kurlander had…
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Woodbridge teacher’s dismissal upheld
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — The Woodbridge Township Board of Education had just cause to dismiss Michele Schwab, a longtime fourth-grade teacher at Robert Mascenik Elementary School No. 26, stemming from her involvement with two separate shoplifting offenses, according to an arbitration decision on tenure charges the board filed against her. Schwab, who…
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Two lose teaching certificates in Woodbridge scandal
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Teaching certificates have been stripped from former longtime Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Lois Rotella, who allegedly inflicted fear on her subordinates regarding standardized testing that led to the Township School district’s cheating scandal in 2012, and from a former Avenel Middle School music teacher for making…