The board of education has approved keeping its upcoming election on April 17, responding to a new state law offering the option of changing the date to the November general election by a Feb. 17 deadline.
A Jersey City middle school was the backdrop for conservative activists with the New Jersey Tea Party, who visited this month to promote their ideas for improving public education. Smack in the middle of an urban public school district the state has defined as failing, a panel of seven advocates assembled in the Franklin L. Williams School auditorium Jan. 22 [...]
The Board of Education meeting on Thursday was the first for new state monitor Cathy Coyle, who returned recently after working in the district for 39 years. Her hiring had been the subject of a protest on Jan. 17; Sue Curry and her group Parents and Communities United for Education demonstrated outside the district’s central [...]
Organizer Sue Curry with Parents and Communities United for Education and a vocal group of supporters armed with signs demanded the Jersey City Board of Education finally move on what Curry claimed has been a two-year-old commitment to start repairing problems in facilities district-wide. The group’s placards carried messages such as “Fix Our Schools Now” [...]
Thursday’s Board of Education meeting focused on two immediate concerns: the possibility of filling the vacancy left by Sean Connors and potential shift of the upcoming election from April to November.
The Education Law Center and a Jersey City school board member are demanding Gov. Chris Christie’s administration account for what they describe as foot-dragging in approving requests for necessary repairs to school buildings.
The Board of Education will employ a former New Jersey education commissioner and former superintendent of Detroit’s public schools for at least six months to search for a successor to retired superintendent Charles Epps.
Interim superintendent Franklin Walker detailed his priorities at a superintendent search meeting on Saturday, assuring those who attended that he will not be a mere caretaker during what is expected to be a six-month tenure.
Though in the center of a storm for much of last year, the now-retired Charles Epps departed on a high note during his final board of education meeting last month, with many well-wishers thanking him for his service. Epps left the district December 31 after 11 years as superintendent.
Some 40 people were stuck on the outside looking in for more than an hour on Dec. 22 when acting state education commissioner Christopher Cerf met with the school board in a closed session to discuss the ongoing superintendent search.
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
