Tag: BOE

HOLMDEL – Township officials are moving to purchase the board of education-owned Adeline “Addy” Holmes Lubkert property for $1.03 million, while also considering a possible renewal of the $600,000 shared services agreement to preserve courtesy busing, as the district approved a tentative $76.3 million 2026-27 budget March 25.

MIDDLETOWN – Middletown parents took their school-closure objections from the meeting room to the streets of Leonardo March 15.

MIDDLETOWN – A group of seven parents is asking the New Jersey Commissioner of Education to stop the district’s school closure plan, challenging the board of education’s (BOE) Feb. 26 decision to shutter three schools.

MIDDLETOWN – The district’s board of education voted 5-4 last week to close three schools under mounting financial pressures.

SHREWSBURY – The century-old Shrewsbury Borough School (SBS) is entering a new chapter. The Shrewsbury Board of Education (BOE) has launched a search for a new superintendent following the retirement announcement of Superintendent Brent MacConnell.

COLTS NECK – With new members sworn in and a favorable audit report, the Colts Neck Board of Education (BOE) resumed business at its annual reorganization meeting last month, largely devoted to opposing a statewide school consolidation proposal introduced by state Sen. Vin Gopal (D-11).

COLTS NECK – U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s recent visit to Cedar Drive Middle School has sparked a protest that won’t go away.

MIDDLETOWN – Sara Weinstein secured the final open seat on the Middletown Board of Education (BOE) after a tie-breaking recount Friday, Nov. 21, that gave her just eight votes more than her running mate, James Cody.