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| | District: test scores will decline
11/06/2008
School officials are warning that test scores in Montclair’s public schools will probably decline even though most individual students will show progress in federally mandated testing programs.
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| | Bradford gets new principal
11/06/2008
The search for a new principal for Bradford Elementary School is over.
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| | School officials: Wall Street woes won’t block new school
10/23/2008
The turmoil in the nation’s credit markets is not likely to thwart the construction of the town’s first new school building in nearly a century.
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| | Schools are alive with the sounds of music
10/23/2008
The Montclair Board of Education has launched a new initiative in music and the performing arts.
District officials said elementary school students will now have an opportunity to learn how to play a variety of musical instruments and they will eventuall
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| | Interim principal: MHS on solid ground
10/23/2008
Montclair High School is in good shape and will only get better in the months ahead, said the school’s Interim Principal Judith Weiss.
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| | District: Tough times ahead
10/23/2008
Montclair’s public schools are likely to face tough economic times ahead, school district officials have warned.
Schools Superintendent Frank Alvarez said officials fear the Montclair School District may be hit with a perfect storm of financial and reg
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| | District staff turnover to continue
10/23/2008
The recent staff turnover that has dramatically reshaped the leadership and teaching staff of Montclair’s public schools is likely to continue over the next several years as a growing number of the district’s senior staff approach retirement age.
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| | Montclarion thriving under new freedom
10/23/2008
The Montclarion, Montclair State University’s student newspaper that was briefly shut down during a dispute with the university’s student government, is enjoying the fruits of its newfound freedom.
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| | District staff turnover to continue
10/16/2008
The recent staff turnover that has dramatically reshaped the leadership and teaching staff of Montclair’s public schools is likely to continue over the next several years as a growing number of the district’s senior staff approach retirement age.
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| | Oct. 25 ribbon-cutting for Furlong Field House
10/16/2008
Family members of the late MHS football star Robert “Fuzzy” Furlong will join major donors, community sup-porters, and Montclair School District staff at the Aubrey Lewis Athletic Complex, located on Essex Avenue, to celebrate the completion of the ne
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| | Schools are alive with the sounds of music
10/09/2008
The Montclair Board of Education has launched a new initiative in music and the performing arts.
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| | MHS students face tough new enforcement
10/09/2008
Montclair High School students who are late to class are facing something different this school year: Detention.
Or, as school officials prefer to call it, “consequences.”
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| | Montclair students taking to Mandarin
10/02/2008
China has come to Montclair. More than a year after planning sessions, community discussions and budget crunching began, the Montclair Board of Education was able to roll out its long-awaited and much anticipated China Initiative.
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| | Lawmakers: Keep 18-year-olds in school
10/02/2008
Faced with a growing problem of teenaged crime, substance abuse and unemployment, some educators and elected officials are pushing legislation nationwide that would require students to stay in school until they are 18 years old.
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| | Many MHS seniors eager to vote
10/02/2008
While too many adults take voting for granted, Montclair High School seniors can’t wait to cast their first-ever votes in a presidential election.
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| | Montclair students taking to Mandarin
09/25/2008
China has come to Montclair.
More than a year after planning sessions, community discussions and budget crunching began, the Montclair Board of Education was able to roll out its long-awaited and much anticipated China Initiative.
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| | School choice for students can cause adult anxiety
09/18/2008
The letter in the mail from the Board of Education still strikes terror in the heart of some parents.
It’s the letter that tells parents which school their incoming kindergartner has been assigned to attend in Septem-ber.
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| | Board must decide if sessions go live
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The Board of Education’s public meetings may wind up as Montclair’s newest reality show, but if they do, it will have to be a decision made by the full seven-member board.
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| | China on their minds and lips
09/18/2008
When a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions of people tunes in tomorrow night to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, half a world away there will be a lot of very interested observ-ers at the Montclair Board of Educa
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| | State: Montclair teachers rate highly
09/18/2008
Montclair’s public school teachers compiled impressive scores in the federally mandated survey of teacher qualifi-cations, according to statistics recently released by the state Department of Education.
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| | Latest test scores come as a shock
09/18/2008
Many parents who opened up the envelope mailed to their homes this past week by the Montclair School Dis-trict with the results of their children’s standardized tests scores were in for a shock.
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| | Board sessions could go live on cable
09/18/2008
The Board of Education’s public meetings could become regular staples of the prime-time programming on Montclair’s public access cable TV Channel 34.
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| | Montclair remembers the victims of 9/11
09/18/2008
On a beautiful blue sky morning seven years later, Montclair residents took time out from their hectic daily schedules to gather at the plaza below the Watchung Train Station to reflect on an earlier late-summer day with spectacular azure skies — a morn
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| | Longtime Bradford principal to retire
09/11/2008
Catherine Vitone, who has served as principal of Bradford School for 12 years, will be stepping down.
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| | NAACP: New school should honor MLK
09/11/2008
The head of the state NAACP has urged the Montclair Board of Education to name its yet-unbuilt Washington Street school in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
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| | District’s top salaries divulged by state
08/28/2008
A simmering controversy that has been brewing statewide regarding the benefits paid out to top public school administrators boiled over last week when state education officials released salary details for the highest-ranking staff of all of New Jersey’s
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| | Many changes greet new school year
08/28/2008
When Montclair’s public school students put the long summer break behind them and return to classes next Thursday, many of them will be encountering plenty of changes.
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| | Contract expires: District, Union at bargaining table
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Montclair School District officials and the union representing its teachers say they are making progress toward a new contract agreement, but don’t expect a new pact to be hammered out until autumn.
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| | Montclarion gets its independence
07/31/2008
The Montclair State University student newspaper that was shut down briefly this past January by its student gov-ernment in a battle over press freedom has been granted its independence.
The MSU Board of Trustees has voted to remove the Montclarion from
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| | Montclair State hikes tuition
07/31/2008
The cost of higher education at Montclair State University is going higher next semester.
The MSU Board of Trustees has approved a nearly 7 per cent increase in tuition for the upcoming 2008-2009 academic year that will bring the annual cost for fulltime
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| | Teens tackle messages, TV medium
07/31/2008
When it comes to trying to urge people to recycle their old computers and electronic equipment, Montclair High School’s Newton twins are turning to classic Hollywood imagery that left a lasting imprint on them.
“We’re big movie fans,” Chaddon New
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| | Safety concerns, costs could limit school trips
07/31/2008
The high school trip overseas that many teens look forward to as a youthful rite of passage may become a thing of the past, doomed by safety concerns, fears of potential litigation and the soaring costs of travel.
Montclair School District officials are
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| | Katz to aid in MHS transition
07/24/2008
Retiring Montclair High School principal Mel Katz will stay employed in the school district until the end of the year to help assist in the transition for his successor.
Katz, who led MHS for the past four years until disclosing last week that he would s
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| | Prevention can avert heartache
07/24/2008
Surprise, shock and silence.
Those are the typical reactions that most youngsters experience when they get their first dose of cyberbullying.
All too often, the victims are paralyzed by fear and sit and suffer in silence after getting their first exposu
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| | Cyberbullying is co-ed
07/24/2008
The face behind that threatening e-mail or text message is more likely to be sporting a ponytail than a brush cut.
Law enforcement officials say a growing number of teens charged with bullying classmates or teachers with elec-tronic messaging are girls.
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| | Montclair schools target cyberbullies
07/24/2008
Cyberbullies beware. The Montclair School District has your number – and your e-mails, your text messages and your Facebook postings.
Determined to avert the kind of serious incidents or potential tragedies that have made headlines in other school dist
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| | College-bound teens still departing NJ
07/16/2008
In Montclair alone, nearly 75 percent of the graduating seniors in Montclair High School who intend to go to college will be doing so out of state.
According to figures released by the Montclair Board of Education, 415 of MHS’s 530 graduating seniors
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| | Board of Ed: We’ll hand asbestos info to council
07/16/2008
Montclair public school officials said they would cooperate with the Township Council and provide it with in-formation it is seeking on the extent of asbestos contamination inside Renaissance Middle School.
Schools Superintendent Frank Alvarez said the
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| | Katz retires as MHS principal
07/16/2008
Mel Katz, who has led Montclair High School as its principal for the past four years, will be stepping down as the district-wide shakeup of school administrators continues.
Katz is the eighth top school official to leave Montclair’s public schools in t
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| | MHS principal Mel Katz to retire
07/16/2008
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| | State team surveys Montclair High School
07/02/2008
Montclair High School which was tagged as falling behind in student achievement was the target of a team of state education officials who have conducted an intensive review of the secondary school
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| | School bus bill is going up, district warns
07/02/2008
The cost of busing Montclair’s public school students to classes is going to go up when the new school year be-gins in September — way up, according to officials.
Montclair School District budget planners say the new contract the Board of Education j
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| | MHS grads told to take on the world
06/25/2008
They were born and grew up indifferent parts of the nation, they follow different traditions and they pursue different aspirations and goals. But today, they share a common bond that will unite them forever with hundreds of their colleagues and many thou
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| | Board: We didn’t mislead on budget
06/25/2008
The Montclair Board of Education has strongly denied that its used the wrong numbers in calculating the tax in-crease in the school portion of the township property taxes.
In an unusual appearance before the Township Council, Board President John Carlton
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| | Board of Ed welcomes council’s probe
06/25/2008
The Montclair School District says it welcomes a possible independent probe led by the Township Council into potential asbestos hazards at its Renaissance Middle School.
Schools Superintendent Frank Alvarez said the district will cooperate with the munic
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| | When, or whether, to hold an MHS prom
06/18/2008
The Montclair Board of Education intends to review the scheduling of Montclair High School prom dates to try to avoid future conflicts. Officials say too many student athletes have to make a choice between being with their teammates and playing their spor
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| | MHS Graduation stays put for 2008
06/11/2008
Montclair High School’s class of 2008 will carry on a school tradition and receive their diplomas at outdoor ceremonies in the amphitheater on the MHS campus for at least one more year.
Board of Education officials have decided not to relocate the Jun
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| | Graduation: Hottest ticket in town
05/28/2008
They may not be scalping them yet, but one of the hardest tickets to get this spring is a ducat to a graduation ceremony.
Larger graduating classes, families extended by divorces and remarriages, the more active presence of grandpar-ents, and a limited n
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| | Tests don’t reassure Renaissance parents
05/28/2008
Montclair public school officials tried to reassure the parents of Renaissance Middle School students that their childrens’ classrooms were safe to occupy after an emergency asbestos cleanup, but some parents were having a hard time buying it.
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| | Carlton returns as board president
05/21/2008
John Carlton will be back for a second term as president of the seven-member Board of Education that oversees the operations Montclair’s public schools.
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| | Board awards construction bids
05/21/2008
The oft-delayed Washington Street school construction project that some skeptics said would never get built is on the verge of becoming a reality.
The Board of Education has approved five bids for the major portions of the $35 million project which, when
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| | Asbestos fear grips Renaissance School
05/21/2008
Renaissance Middle School students returned to their classrooms yesterday after a tumultuous week during which they got an unscheduled three-day holiday and their parents and teachers experienced the high anxiety of an asbestos scare.
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| | District repairing worn school roofs
05/15/2008
Advanced age, a succession of severe winters followed by searing summer heat, and the ravages of some tough recent storms have taken their toll on the roofs of Montclair’s 11 public schools. Officials said conditions are forcing the district to move qui
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| | Woodman neighbors, PSE&G poles apart
05/14/2008
Residents who live in the neighborhood around Montclair’s new Woodman Field House had high hopes that a planned extension of electrical power lines needed for a much-anticipated, newly expanded structure could be done without installing new utility pole
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 | District has out-of-town students in its sights
05/08/2008
Despite state laws that require children to attend the public school system in the municipality in which they re-side, authorities say thousands of students statewide are attending public schools illegally.
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| | Schools staff shakeup stresses some parents
05/08/2008
A staff shakeup in the Montclair School District has some parents grabbing for the panic button.
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| | Campus fashions barely cover tops, bottoms
05/01/2008
The Montclair Board of Education wants its high school students to cover up. Literally.
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| | Builders scrambling for construction project
04/10/2008
Local contractors are so anxious to build Montclair’s first new public school in nearly 80 years that they are willing to do battle with each other to win the bidding for the $35 million project
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| | School budget cut again; board votes tonight
04/03/2008
Montclair’s Board of School Estimate is scheduled to approve a $109 million operating budget for the township’s public schools, ending weeks of public meetings, discussions and impromptu debates over the size of the spending plan and the future direct
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| | Construction bids come in under budget
03/27/2008
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| | Budget vote delayed, mayor promises more spending cuts
03/27/2008
The Montclair Board of School Estimate postponed a scheduled final vote on the Montclair School District’s revised $109 million budget proposal for one week as Mayor Ed Remsen promised to make additional cuts and changes in the Board of Education’s re
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| | Board cuts back; layoffs, program reductions loom
03/20/2008
Saying that it has heard the public, the Montclair Board of Education has trimmed its record $110.7 million proposed operating budget for the 2008-2009 school year.
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| | Mayor to district: ‘trim record school budget’
03/06/2008
Warning that Montclair taxpayers are facing a “perfect storm” of bad budgetary news, Mayor Ed Remsen requested the members of the township’s Board of Education to trim its record $110.7 million budget proposal.
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