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"Local officials are planning public workshops and a panel discussion in response to allegations of racial bias" at Collingswood High School.
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A Bloomfield resident and his family are suing the district where he worked for 35 years as a school janitor barely making minimum wage.
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Paterson School District has supposedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on furniture just for the Superintendent's office. northjersey.com/story/news/pat…
The superintendent of the Atlanta City Public Schools has been charged, alongside her husband, the Mayor, with "physically and emotionally abusing their teen daughter, officials announced Monday."
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An Old Bridge Board of Education member and his wife have been charged with taking "nearly $41,068 from the Grissom Elementary School PTA and $12,417 from the Rebels Football & Cheer Association." The theft was reported in September.
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Apparently, the "NJ DOE’s investigations unit should add 'cutting and pasting' to their list of taxpayer funded activities." For the latest on no-bid contract concerns in Newark and the DOE's response, read on from NJ Ed Report.
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"Chronic absenteeism rates and the number of violent and bullying incidents remain higher than before the pandemic, giving schools a lot of work to do in addition to addressing the accompanying problem of learning loss caused by the pandemic." 😬
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"Two former students are suing Fort Lee Public Schools, alleging the district failed to protect them from being sexually harassed and groped by a special education math teacher at Lewis F. Cole Middle School."
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According to Oscar James via NJ Ed Report, "when the Newark school board voted to settle litigation it had started, it did more than stop senseless litigation. It broke the law." Big yikes.
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A new report is pretty damning in its allegations that New Jersey teachers are "hiding abuse and sexual misconduct" while schools are "ignoring the law."
Read more.
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😳 "At least one Newark school board member is demanding answers from Superintendent Roger Leon on two points related to the the district’s plan to repurchase and renovate a long-abandoned school building... to turn into a museum."
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In Newark - "A Board of Education member is pushing school officials for an explanation about what she said was the district’s failure to publicly bid out a contract to convert a defunct school building into a museum of the school district’s history."
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"The superintendent of a Middlesex County school district violated two school ethics rules when she approved a list of substitute teachers that included her son, a state ethics commission found."
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"Apart from his $95,000 job as a Newark City councilman, Patrick Council, is a youth opportunity coordinator for Newark Public Schools, a district job that pays $80,751 a year. His son, Hasani Council, is president of the Newark Board of Ed."
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“A state judge on Tuesday ordered the Newark Board of Education to give her a copy of a report and related material on racial tensions at the School of Global Studies so that she can decide whether they must be made public under OPRA.”
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