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, […]

Jersey Shore Women in Tech [JSWT], a fast-growing organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and mentoring women in the tech industry has raised enough funds to send four Asbury Park High School students to Plum Crazy Robotics tech coding camp in Marlboro. “We have been humbled by how the local community has rallied around this cause […]

The Asbury Park School District has received a $10K OceanFirst 2018 Model Classroom Grant, school officials announced this week. The Model Classroom Grant program is aimed at supporting bold and innovative schools with the vision, creativity and desire to develop model classrooms for learning, officials said. “Building a Brighter Future is our district’s motto,” Superintendent […]

It is only week two of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation Summer Learning Experience program, a part of the Asbury Park School District Summer Camp offerings, and third-grade students have had the opportunity to not only see an osprey up close and personal but to visit a local nest and learn to simulate building the predatory […]

There was little fanfare Monday morning as the newest member of the Asbury Park Police Department was sworn into duty, but it was a lifelong dream realized but city natives and longtime municipal employees Cassandra Dickerson and Leesha Floyd attended the swearing in ceremony as a show of support. From the age of 5 or […]

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 […]

A Tuesday morning bomb threat to the Motor Vehicle Commission on Third Avenue resulted in officials evacuating the building and placing the neighboring Bradley Elementary School on a temporary lockdown, Deputy Chief David Kelso said. Asbury Park Police Officers responded near 9:47 a.m to the 1010 Comstock Street location, department spokesman Sgt Michael Casey said. […]

Parents and adults who came to drop off and support the community’s students ended up being a part of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater tutorial program held Saturday morning at the Asbury Park High School on Sunset Avenue. Among them were school district’s Bibi Bennett and Genise Hughes, as well as Councilwoman Yvonne Clayton. […]

The Asbury Park Board of Education, in a unanimous vote, has approved the permanent appointment of Acting Superintendent Sancha Gray.  The former Assistant Superintendent took on the interim post in February after Gov. Phil Murphy tapped the district’s former Superintendent Lamont Repollet as the state’s Commissioner of Education. Gray said her five year contract is […]

From readings with Secretary of State Tahesha Way and a Black History Celebration that honored female political leaders of color to a conversation about gun violence with Congressman Frank Pallone Jr, the students in the Asbury Park High School have landed on a landscape that not only takes them across the state but throughout parts […]