District management
The New Jersey School Ethics Commission dismissed complaints alleging two Newark school board members violated the Ethics Act after failing to seat Thomas Luna to the board last fall.
The Newark Board of Education agreed to pay back the state more than $30,000 in state aid.
Newark Public Schools was granted a federal extension allowing school districts to wrap up projects funded by federal COVID relief dollars as it continues to deal with its facilities needs.
A 2012 settlement agreement required Newark Public Schools to reach 95% compliance with federal and state timelines for identifying and evaluating students with disabilities.
Newark Public Schools officials had planned to have the cameras installed by Aug. 31 before the start of the new school year. But challenges in connecting the required cabling through school buildings are delaying the project, sources say.
Board of education members approved the appointment of four district employees to executive leadership roles and hired a new communications director.
Turnout was characteristically low — below 3%.
There are three full-term seats up for grabs and one seat with a one-year unexpired term.
Newark Public Schools has resisted the union’s request to see the report on the cultural and racial dynamics at the city’s School of Global Studies.
The two-time public school board candidate will fill the empty seat after Hasani Council was sworn in as president following the abrupt departure of the board’s former president.
Shuffling of leaders leaves a vacant seat on the board, just ahead of key planning meeting.
Board president Asia Norton publicly announced her resignation in a Facebook post on Monday.
Five years after the Newark school system returned to local control, newly elected Board of Education members were officially sworn in at Thursday’s reorganization meeting.
Superintendent Roger León said it is not “humanly” possible to make changes to this year’s academic calendar.
The Newark Teachers Union is researching why some employees were excluded from a $1,000 “Let’s Go To Work” payment announced during the annual convocation held at the start of the school year.
On Thursday, the school board approved four motions to pay attorney’s fees for board members served with ethics complaints.
An attempt by board member Crystal Williams to halt the extension of Roger Leon’s contract to 2028 drew no support from other board members.
School districts had until the end of 2022 to schedule meetings about makeup services with parents of students with disabilities.
The Newark Teachers Union wants the school district to include “per diem” employees in the $1,000 bonus for full-time employees.
Under a state law passed in March, school districts are required to hold meetings with parents of students with disabilities by Dec. 31 to discuss how their student can make up services missed due to remote learning during the pandemic.