The July workshop/voting meeting of the Middletown school board, scheduled for July 18, has now been rescheduled to July 26.
Walker will still be paid her $227,000 salary for the remaining time in her contract, which expires in June 2024.
The NJ Attorney General says Middletown is putting the physical safety of transgender students at risk by "outing" them to their parents.
A spokeswoman for NJ Attorney General Platkin said his office is now "carefully reviewing" Middletown's new policy on transgender students:
The Middletown school district is now required to notify parents if their child seeks to go by a different name or gender pronoun:
The Middletown BOE is attempting to require teachers notify parents if a child wants to publicly be known by a different name or pronoun:
Middletown North Student Stands Up for Trans Rights
The Middletown North graduation was briefly interrupted Thursday when a teen girl fainted and fell backwards off the bleachers:
Released by the district May 26, here are the dates for the Middletown High School North, South and three middle school 2023 graduations:
The Monmouth County Department of Education and the state DOE refuse to answer if something may be wrong with their email servers:
The Middletown superintendent and lawyer say nobody received an email sent to five employees, notifying them a teacher lost his license:
The special voting meeting previously scheduled for May 9, 2023 will now be on Monday, May 15, 2023:
At issue is the hiring of three new "academic interventionists" for Middletown schools next year, and busing for Port Monmouth kids:
"I don't work for the MTEA; I work for the people of Middletown," Heffernan tells Patch Monday.
The next Middletown school board meeting, April 25, will be in the High School North auditorium instead of the library, due to an art show:
The Middletown school district has set graduation dates for the three middle schools and High School North/South. They are:
The Middletown school board seats held by Heffernan, Tobacco and Capone are up this year. Why isn't 1,2,3 as close as they used to be?
The students are Michael Gao, Amanda Guan, Kevin Guan, Amanda Lin and Kevin Liu, who attend High Technology High School in Lincroft.
5 Lincroft high school students are slated to compete in the final round of an international math modeling challenge later this month.
On Thursday, Thorne Middle School students packed 60 boxes to ship to U.S. troops, in memory of Middletown's Lt. Dennis Zilinski.
Drama occurred last night, where a majority of the Board voted to censure Harmony Heffernan, saying they "disapprove" of his recent conduct:
"Our teachers need more hands-on help in the classroom. I don't think they need more people to supervise them," said BOE member Minnuies.
The Middletown school district's lawyer said the DOE needs to do a better job notifying districts when a teacher loses their license:
State aid can be an influential factor on whether local property taxes are raised.
A teacher who had his license permanently taken away by the state last year still taught at High School South for four months, unlicensed:
Attention, Middletown parents/guardians who have concerns about the educational development of your child in the following areas:
There has been a change to the next upcoming scheduled meeting of the Middletown Township Board of Education:
In fact, the Middletown school district is currently looking for local businesses that would be interested in hiring the young adults:
It was ceremonial, but the audience clapped when the BOE voted to abolish contact tracing, twice-weekly testing for teachers and more:
Board newcomer Joe Fitzgerald raised some eyebrows last week with his decision to nominate Joan Minnuies over Jacqueline Tobacco:
For the second year in a row, Frank Capone was named president of the Middletown school board and Jacqueline Tobacco was named veep.
On Dec. 23, the DOE released a list of which school districts will get extra money from the state in stabilization aid.
The meeting will be held in the Middletown High School North Library, 63 Tindall Road, at 7 p.m. This is the reorganization meeting:
Many River Plaza parents donated $100 and a few even donated $1,000 to install a bronze statue outside the school, of two children reading.
Dozens of Middletown teens braved the rain Tuesday, eager to prepare for their future. Two students even landed internships that night:
The Middletown school board is moving the workshop/voting meeting, scheduled for Dec. 14, to Dec. 13.
As Perth Amboy and New Brunswick received millions in federal money to hire armed police in schools, Middletown has to pay on its own.
This will be a combined workshop and voting meeting for the month of November:
Students at MAST and Christian Brothers won first, second and third place for their photos capturing Monmouth County history.
Middletown schools received a $491K grant, but BOE President Frank Capone said he wished it could be used to pay for the police officers: