Tag: schools

MIDDLETOWN – A district-commissioned review conducted by Ross Haber & Associates was recently delivered to the district’s Board of Education (BOE).

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.

NEW JERSEY – State officials unveiled their $22.2 billion funding package for New Jersey schools as part of New Jersey’s fiscal year 2026 (FY2026) budget. Coupled with this are a number of changes to stabilize swings in state aid school districts faced last year.

TRENTON – Several Two River-area towns and schools have claimed a share of the $25 million in grants awarded by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Division of Local Government Services (DLGS) to 372 local governments and school districts across the state.

The state Legislature is advancing bills to restore millions in lost funding to school districts facing cuts.

Staff and programming cuts may be inevitable for the Red Bank Borough School District next year as the institution faces a severe state funding cut.

While school boards – and parents – across New Jersey continue to debate the state’s Policy 5756 which bars schools from outing transgender students to their families, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Monmouth County has taken a firm position in support of the policy.

After years of studies and discussions, residents went to the polls to vote on the future of their public school districts and regionalization passed by a wide margin.

Residents of Atlantic Highlands and Highlands will go to the polls Sept. 26 to decide the future of their public school system.

After unanimously adopting a resolution during its Feb. 9 meeting, the governing body is poised to develop the missing piece of a school regionalization petition that requires a mutually beneficial formula to divide and allocate annual tax savings.