Interim superintendent Franklin Walker announced Monday that Infinity Institute, which serves gifted students in grades 7 to 10, won’t move to PS 41 on Wilkinson Avenue, ending speculation and easing parents’ concerns.
In a stunning reversal, parent Joel Torres decided Tuesday not to fill a Board of Education vacancy slated to last only a month in order to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, according to a board member.
In a surprising and sudden turnaround they claimed the state forced upon them, Jersey City School Board of Education members filled Sean Connors’ vacancy last night by appointing a parent, Joel Torres, with just one month left on the term before elections in April.
This year’s Board of Education contest will see eight candidates vying for three three-year seats in a field devoid of incumbents. It will also involve a new organization looking to flex its muscle with Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop in endorsing three candidates.
The school system is performing poorly in the areas of instruction/program, personnel and governance, far below acceptable benchmarks New Jersey’s Quality Single Accountability Continuum (QSAC) law has set, according to acting state education commissioner Christopher Cerf.
Local residents gathered at Middle School 7 on Saturday to tell the school district’s top executive recruiter for the first time what they would like to see in the new superintendent he will help select.
Next year’s projected $673.4 million school budget could feature a $42.5 million increase and $8.4 million deficit — yet stay within the state’s two-percent property tax cap limit, business administrator Melissa Simmons said at a public meeting Wednesday at Greenville’s School 15.
While saying she thinks he is well-intentioned, leading Jersey City school choice advocate Shelley Skinner tells JCI she anticipates not working so closely with Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop on education reform issues moving forward, citing an unspecified “disagreement” that has arisen since the summer.
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.
Share/Save 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. [...]
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