Just before school let out on Wednesday afternoon, Asbury Park Middle School’s students and administration figuratively changed the course of their direction. The over 550 student body and the faculty were joined by parents and community members to rename the school – The Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. School Superintendent Lamont Repollet said the […]

The Asbury Park School District is accepting candidacy petitions for the three vacant seats in the April 19 Board of Education [BOE] election, district spokesperson Chanta L. Jackson announced Tuesday. Three-year terms are up for Board President Nicolle Harris, and members Corey Lowell and Connie Breech. Potential candidates must file nominating petitions with the school […]

The Asbury Park School District has announced Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will be this year’s Black History Month Extravaganza’s keynote speaker. The free event will be held 5:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Paramount Theatre along the Asbury Park […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education voted this month to shift its election back to the spring. The vote to move back to an April election date was 6-0 with an abstention from Angela Ahbez-Anderson. Board members Corey Lowell and Connie Breech were not present. “The Asbury Park School Board and District are striving to […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education swore in its newest members Tuesday during its annual reorganization meeting. Sheila Etienne, Kenneth Saunders and Angela Ahbez-Anderson were sworn into office by business administrator Geoffrey Hastings. Harris was voted president of the board and Saunders was named Vice president. The board attorney gave a brief overview of the […]

Rosalyn Williams attended Thursday night’s ‘Saving Our Students Symposium’ to learn what she could to help guide her child’s chosen career. “She wants to be a physical therapist,” Williams, a city resident, said of her daughter Amaris. “But she wants to go the distance. She wants to get a doctorate. “I came here tonight because […]

Fifth-grader Amira Gates of Asbury Park has captured the first honor on the road to being named a national Future Chef. “When I first went inside I felt nervous, but then I heard everything was going to be fine,” she said. Gates [at right] was one of 21 elementary students from the school district’s Barack […]

The owner and operator of Little Tots II daycare center and pre-school at 603 Mattison Avenue was arrested today and faces charges of fraud in providing services to city pre-schoolers, according to a news release from Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni. Sylvia B. Brodrick, 59, of Shadow Lawn Drive in the Oakhurst section of […]

Two years after capturing the Miss New Jersey crown, Arkansas native Cara McCollum is still advocating for youth literacy. The Princeton University journalism student visited Barack Obama grade school on Bangs Avenue this morning to forward her Birthday Book Project. “Kids get a gift-wrapped book for their birthday because I truly believe books are a […]

Asbury Park school administrators will outline their goals and plans of action for achieving those goals at tomorrow night’s board of education meeting. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lamont Repollet, who signed a contract with the district in late September [shown above] and joined full time in October, said it is the first part of the process […]