Thursday, May 17, 2012
Accept Rachel's Challenge after program at high school, and tackle fundraising for Valerie Fund.
Students at Warren Middle School accomplished a lot last Friday, when the school participated in two special challenges for the students. The day began with the entire student body and staff commuting to Watchung Hills Regional for a presentation of the anti-bullying Rachel's Challenge program. The program is named after Rachel Scott, the first person killed in the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School. In her memory, a nationwide anti-bullying was launched aiming to foster positive attitudes and behaviors by students as a way to prevent incidents caused by long-term bullying. While at the high school, the students participated in a program with a video presentation, followed by a 90-minute session with adult and student leaders offering…
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Warren Middle School
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Watchung Hills Regional Education Association members and school board will weigh-in on terms next.
The agreement reached by negotiators for the Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education and the school's education association setting contract terms for the 2011-14 school years is pending approval by the WHREA membership and a vote by the school board. The settlement follows more than a year of intensive—and at times, acrimonious—negotiations, which began before the expiration of the last contract on June 30, 2011. The talks were complicated by 2011's benefits reform by the state, and led to the institution of "work to rule" hours by teachers, limiting after-school access for students. "We hope to have a ratification vote soon, although there are some procedural matters before that can happen," WHREA President Sean DiGiovanna said. Among…
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Watchung Hills Regional
108 Stirling Rd, Warren, NJ
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PTO project aimed at drawing more students in to participate.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Board issues statement; agreement subject to WHREA membership vote.
The Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education issued the following statement this afternoon: "After more than one year of negotiations regarding contract renewals, the Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education (Board) and the Watchung Hills Regional Education Association (WHREA) have mutually reached a Memorandum of Agreement. "The agreement is between the board and the three bargaining units of the WHREA; (1)Teachers, (2)Secretaries, Aides and Technicians and (3)Custodians, Maintenance and Bus Drivers and is effective through the 2013-2014 school year. "This agreement requires ratification by the membership of the WHREA and the Board and is expected to take place soon. Details of thesettlement will not be released until such time." …
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Watchung Hills Regional
108 Stirling Rd, Warren, NJ
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Dana Grazia helps school raise funding for impoverished girls obtain education.
Two members of the Harlem Wizards visit schools ahead of Friday's Valerie Fund benefit game.
The Harlem Wizard's Big Jay introduced himself to Warren students Tuesday, getting the first question on kids' minds out of the way. "My name is Big Jay, and I am six feet, eight inches tall and wear a size 18 shoe," he said. He then offered the kids something that got them very enthusisastic about Friday's benefit game at Watchung Hills Regional High School for The Valerie Fund: "If you want to see teachers get embarassed, if you want to see teachers running around acting funny...then go to Watchung (Regional) High School Friday at seven o'clock." Judging by the kids' reactions, the promise was very alluring—but it's OK because the game is aiming to help The Valerie Fund and its support for special cancer centers at hospitals for children…
Monday, May 14, 2012
Township school negotiators meeting, while still waiting for fact finder's report.
March 19—the date negotiators working on a new teachers contract expected a report from the state fact finder—came and went with no word from the fact finder. In recent weeks, the negotiators have held more meetings and while an agreement on salaries and benefits has not been reached, some progress has been made. "I would say they are closer than ever," Superintendent Tami Crader said. According to Dr. Crader and Warren Township Education Association President Fran Blabolil, the negotiating teams have met "a couple of times" in recent weeks. The talks in recent weeks ended a period of waiting for the fact finder's report, which some had hoped would help bring about an end to the protracted negotiations. Although the report is not binding …
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Warren Township Board of Education
213 Mount Horeb Rd, Warren, NJ
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Awards announced at the National Society of Public Accountants' spring meeting.
Four Watchung Hills Regional High School seniors received scholarships totaling $30,000 from the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, the local chapter of the National Society of Public Accountants, at the organization’s spring meeting. The recipients, students of Robin Simonetta and Dianne Krutz, have all studied accounting for two or more years at Watchung Hills and plan to continue their studies in that subject on the college level. The award winners are: Alyssa Blochlinger, who will attend the College of New Jersey; Greg Stone, Elon College; Gerald Tigol, New York University, and Derek Weisman, the University of Wisconsin.
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Watchung Hills Regional
108 Stirling Rd, Warren, NJ
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Friday, May 11, 2012
One of just 140 chosen from across the country.
Priyanka Goyal, a member of Watchung Hills Regional High School’s graduating class, has been named for an exceptional honor: She has been chosen as a United States Presidential Scholar, one of some 140 such to be tapped for this distinction. She was selected from a pool of approximately 500 graduating seniors nationwide under consideration, and is one of the two New Jerseyans to have been named. Only two students, one male and one female, are selected to represent each state . (Goyal’s male counterpart is from a charter school in Ridgewood.) The total number of appointees also includes a Young Arts contingent. The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by Executive Order of the President to honor the nation’s …
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Watchung Hills Regional
108 Stirling Rd, Warren, NJ
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Central School's Valerie Fund Walkathon gets a lift from the Shabazz High School Marching Band
Warren Township Schools are pitching in Friday, to help the Valerie Fund with walkathons and other fundraising activities. Central School planned an event to cap the school's fundraising by calling on some special guests: the members of the M.X. Shabazz High School Marching Band. The band performed a cadence to warm the crowd up, before parent Beth Richmond, acting as emcee, revealed the school's fundraising total for the fund and gave some honors to students and teachers "who went above and beyond." Stay with the video to the end to see the total the school raised.
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Central School
109 Mount Bethel Rd, Warren, NJ
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barbara LaSaracina
11:48 am on Monday, May 14, 2012
As a taxpayer and educator in Warren, I surpassed frustrated many months ago. When I reflect on the outstanding education my daughters received in Warren and the successful young women they are today, I am proud that we were once a town that truly valued an outstanding educational system and paid our teachers a fair salary and did not look for our bargains in the educational arena. I am deeply … more ›