Incumbent Sheila Brazile and newcomer Jessie Ricks are running together for three-year seats on the Asbury Park Board of Education [BOE]. BOE elections are being held in November with the general election for the first time this year. Previously, they were held in April. Eight have declared candidacy for four spots on the nine-member board. […]

Superintendent Denise Lowe’s first four-year contract with the school district ends this December and the board of education [BOE] will soon vote on whether to keep her in her post. Lowe has been superintendent since 2009. Board members have discussed Lowe’s soon-to-expire contract in executive session, closed to the public and without Lowe in attendance, […]

With board of education [BOE] elections just around the corner, eight have declared candidacy for four spots on the nine-member board. Along with most other districts in the state, during the 2010-2011 school year, the BOE voted to move elections to November. Previously, the city’s BOE elections were held in April each year, separate from […]

School administrators have made it a point to bring parents in to the school community in recent years. And thanks to volunteers and staff members, it seems more parents are involved now than at any point in recent history. Parental involvement is a long-standing goal for Asbury Park school district Superintendent Denise Lowe [pictured above, […]

The board of education [BOE] is finalizing plans for administrative offices to move from downtown Asbury Park to the Barack H. Obama building on Bangs Avenue [pictured above]. The district’s administrative staff has occupied a floor of The Press Building at 603 Mattison Ave. [right] for several years, paying $189,327 annually, or about $15,000 per […]

Asbury Park High School’s Blue Bishops football team is ready to make its fall debut this Saturday, starting with a Grand Re-Opening Celebration at 11:45 a.m. The school district is inviting the public to celebrate the field’s re-opening on Sept. 8 prior to the football team’s first home game against Keyport, which starts at noon. […]

A new after-school program will enhance music education at Asbury Park Middle School this fall. The Artist Residence Program [ARP] consists of weekly after-school workshops and clinics from Monday through Friday at Asbury Park Middle School. The board of education approved the program at its Aug. 29 meeting. The board approved ARP with a monthly […]

Some local preschoolers celebrated their graduation recently with a pizza party. And it wasn’t just any pizza party. Instead of ordering food from a restaurant, the students got to taste produce from their own garden, which they’d been cultivating for the past year. Students at Head Start Preschool, which provides free childcare to low-income families […]

After a split vote on the same matter at a previous meeting, the Asbury Park Board of Education last night unanimously approved Bro. Min. John Muhammad to speak at three district schools this month. Muhammad is a community activist and founder of the GANG [Going After the Next Generation] Organization, as well as a minister […]

Asbury Park School District Superintendent Denise Lowe held a town hall meeting last night to discuss goals for the district and what has been accomplished in the past year — although it appeared no one from the public attended. With those in attendance mostly members of the school’s faculty and staff, Lowe went on with […]