Asbury Park Superintendent Sancha K. Gray held her first stakeholder meeting Wednesday to engage community partners in a discussion about the framework for Vision 2020 Next Level Asbury Park School District.  The meeting, held in the Asbury Park High School Media Center, involved approximately 50 attendees including district administrators, staff, parents, elected officials, business owners, […]

From an inaugural Pre-K Bridge Crossing and Bradley Elementary School Prom to Thursday night’s High School Graduation and Friday morning’s Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Promotion, the Asbury Park School District celebrated its traditional and new rites of passage this past month. Newly sworn in Commissioner of Education [the district’s former superintendent] Dr. Lamont […]

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 […]

In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Bradley Elementary School hosted its first Annual Breast Cancer Parade on Friday, Oct. 17. In addition to the parade, staff was asked to contribute $5, instead of the typical $2 given on Dress Down Jean Day, toward a Team Bradley donation to the American Cancer Society. Through those […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education has appointed a new superintendent of schools. In a unanimous decision, Carteret High School principal Dr. Lamont Repollet [shown at right] was selected to head up the district at a meeting held late last week. The appointment is subject to contract approval, according to state monitor Carole Morris, who […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education has re-opened the search for a district superintendent of schools. An advertisement for the position was placed in a local newspaper Sunday, school board administrator Geoffrey Hastings said. The advertisement sets a May 20 deadline for applications. Rather than form a selection committee to interview candidates, the board chose at […]

The Asbury Park School District recognized four Teachers of the Year for the 2013-14 school year at the Board of Education’s April 27 meeting, according to a release from the district. Denise D’Alessandro [shown above, in center] is a special education teacher at Bradley Elementary School. She has been a teacher in the district for 20 years. […]

Several Asbury Park students were honored by the Asbury Park/Wall Elks Lodge No. 128 for their participation in the club’s Americanism contest. District students with special needs between the ages of nine and 14, were asked to color a poster, write an essay or record their thoughts on why they are proud to be an American, according […]

Asbury Park students will, once again, all be able to walk to school in the fall. Members of the Asbury Park Board of Education voted Tuesday to reinstate the Barack H. Obama building as an elementary school for the 2014-2015 school year. Asbury Park has always been a walking district, but when the Obama School […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education heard a preliminary report of what it may take to reinstate the Barack H. Obama building as an elementary school for the 2014-2015 school year during a special meeting held Tuesday. Redrawing the district’s boundary lines, furniture considerations, general building maintenance and upkeep, bringing 21st century technology into the classrooms, […]