During a special walking class trip, over 220 Asbury Park elementary students obtained their library cards, setting them up to become future readers. The March on Literacy, an idea sparked by Thurgood Marshall Elementary School Principal Thea M. Jackson-Byers, was created as part of a ‘Recharting Our Students Journey Towards Academic Success’ campaign. Assistant Library […]

The Walk to School Day initiative continued Friday morning as school and city officials came together to walk a few lucky student raffle winners to Thurgood Marshall Elementary school. The initiative, which began in 1994 in Great Britain, has grown into an international movement, celebrated by over 40 countries. According to the NJDOT, the state […]

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 Asbury Park Department of Public Works [DPW] enlisted the help of the city’s fourth graders for the design of this year’s recycling calendar and announced the winners at two assemblies held Tuesday, one at the Thurgood Marshall School and one at Bradley Elementary School. The work of Thurgood Marshall School’s Lissette Contreras, 9, will grace […]

Students made some new friends on Friday morning as 57 guests filled Thurgood Marshall Elementary School to read tales of cats in hats and green eggs and ham for Read Across America Day. Grown-ups of all stripes descended on the school on March 1 to share their favorite stories with the elementary school students. And […]