Asbury Park’s schools will be closed on Monday, Oct. 29, due to the impending hurricane, officials announced today. A special board of education meeting originally set for Monday night has been rescheduled for Friday, Nov. 2, at Bradley Elementary School at 7 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the superintendent’s contract. The […]

At last week’s School District Meet-and-Greet in the Barack Obama Building, parents and district employees discussed parent programs and formally met some new administrators, including high school principal Reginald Mirthil. MEETING THE PRINCIPAL Mirthil, who is an alumnus of Asbury Park High School, just started as principal in September. “I am humbled to stand before […]

Prior to the board of education’s vote on renewing Superintendent Dr. Denise Lowe’s contract at the Oct. 10 board meeting, members of the staff and the public spoke about the upcoming vote during public comment. In the end, the vote was inconclusive, with three board members voting yes and three abstaining, while two more were […]

The school district is gearing up for a visit from a foreign dignitary next week when Tanzanian First Lady Mama Salma Kikwete [pictured at right] comes to town. The likely date of the visit will be sometime next week, Superintendent Denise Lowe said at last night’s board of education [BOE] meeting. At 9 a.m., Kikwete […]

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 […]

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 […]

The board of education was divided on whether to pay Pedro Noguera $8,000 to deliver the keynote address for the annual Superintendent’s Convocation for the Asbury Park School District Faculty and Staff. After two votes, the speaker and his fee were approved. Noguera is a professor of education at New York University, according to the […]

The board of education was especially divided over one issue during budget discussions this week — the color of the new football field’s Astro Turf. After two close votes, the board determined it would not expend an extra $45,000 on a blue field. Instead, the board approved next year’s $66 million budget, which allocates $825,000 […]

The Board of Education last night approved the 2012-2013 school budget after almost three hours of deliberation. The spending plan bears a 2-percent tax levy increase — the highest increase the state permits without a referendum. The operating budget for next year is $66,651,301, of which $6,253,002 will be raised through local taxation. Tuition from […]