Tag: Education

MIDDLETOWN – Applause and excited cheers echoed down the hallway at Harmony Elementary School Friday, Oct. 24, as students and staff gathered to open the school’s new band room. The long-anticipated space, carved out of the former library, marks a fresh start for the fourth- and fifth-graders who will learn and rehearse there this year.

TINTON FALLS – Last Saturday and Sunday, the Two River area experienced another nearly perfect “local summer” weekend. And if you spent either of those days on a Long Branch beach, you might have Mia Grossman and a cohort of high school students to thank for its pristine condition.

LINCROFT – Stockton University and Brookdale Community College have renewed a partnership that has helped students make a smooth transition from the two-year college to Stockton’s four-year bachelor’s degree program since 2018.

By the time the first downbeat drops on a crisp Friday night, the work has been going on for months – metronomes clicking in a band room, drill sets scribbled in pencil, and teenagers in the Two River area learning to move (and think) as one.

SHREWSBURY – Students at Shrewsbury Borough School will return to a larger building next week. The school will open the doors to a new pre-K wing, marking the latest chapter in the century-long evolution of the borough’s only elementary school from a three-story school- house to a modern educational facility.

MIDDLETOWN – In a split vote, the Middletown Township Board of Education last week approved a 10.1% tax increase to cover the 2025-26 school district budget.

MIDDLETOWN – Following a series of public engagement sessions, the Middletown Township Board of Education this week approved a motion that could allow up to a 10.1% tax increase in next year’s school budget. The final tax levy for the 2025-2026 school year will be decided April 30, when the school board will adopt next year’s budget.

MIDDLETOWN – The Middletown Township School District could generate an additional $8.37 million in revenue for the upcoming school year through local taxes to help shrink an approximately $10 million funding gap for the 2025-2026 school year. But will residents favor a tax hike over school closures and redistricting?

MIDDLETOWN – Facing a $10 million budget gap for the upcoming school year, the Middletown Township Board of Education approved a tentative 2025-2026 school budget that may require the closing of three schools.

LINCROFT – “No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,” cried Red Bank Catholic senior Sarah Moser last Saturday, spotlighted against a red curtain on the stage of Brookdale Community College’s Performing Arts Center. Moser, from Matawan, was one of five students taking her turn reciting passages from Shakespeare’s works for the Monmouth County English-Speaking Union’s (ESU) annual Shakespeare Competition for High School Students.