Tuesday, April 16, 2013
State releases School Performance Reports focused on college and career readiness
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Tuesday, April 16
The Department of Education released new School Performance Reports for all schools in the state for the 2012-13 school year last week. The reports include new data on college and career readiness and provide comparison to “peer schools” in order to provide a more complete picture of school performance for educators and the general public. In addition, the Department released the 2013 Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending to help New Jersey residents and interested citizens learn how their tax dollars are spent in their schools. “These new school performance reports were developed with the input of stakeholders across the state and provide a significant amount of new data to present a more complete picture of school performance,” …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Long Branch School District closed Nov. 5, Eatontown School District closed through Nov. 6
Shore Regional and West Long Branch School District students will not be returning to school until Monday, Nov. 12 due to Hurricane Sandy's impact on the area. Sea Bright, one of the towns hit hardest by Sandy, Monmouth Beach, Oceanport and West Long Branch are sending districts for Shore Regional. Many families in these towns still do not have power and many homes were damaged or destroyed by the hurricane. The Long Branch School District will remain closed through Monday, Nov. 5 and the Eatontown School District will be closed through Nov. 6. "As soon as the streets are safe and power resumes we will communicate with you regarding school hours and openings," a message on the Long Branch School District web site states. "School …
Monday, September 24, 2012
School is first of the 2011 Capital Portfolio to enter the construction phase
Governor Chris Christie was on hand to commend the Long Branch School District and the city for groundbreaking of the George L. Catrambone School on Monday morning. The school is the first of the School Development Authority's (SDA) 2011 Capital Portfolio to enter the construction phase, with site work already completed. "With today's groundbreaking, this Administration is demonstrating its firm commitment to move forward with the construction of efficient and cost-effective school facilities that provide our students with modern and efficient learning environments," Christie said today. The school will be a 109,000 square-foot, two-story facility designed to educate approximately 800 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grades. …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
New parent portal, literacy program and teacher evaluation systems in place for 2012-13 school year
The Long Branch School District will have a bevy of new programs and polices for the 2012-13 school year and Long Branch School District Superintendent Michael Salvatore said he is excited about the possibilities. One new program is called Treasures, a literacy program for grades K-6. "The goal is to make learning more individualized and it's about engagement at the students' level," Salvatore said. "The teacher modifies it to fit their needs." Salvatore said standardized test results should not be the first indicators if a student is struggling and that the tests should "just be to confirm what you already know." The previous literacy program, Success for All, had been used by the district since 1999, but Salvatore said he was not …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Project includes exterior and interior and upgrades to school
Students and parents who have not walked into the Morris Avenue School since the end of the last school year may not not recognize it when school reopens on Thursday. The pre-K to second grade school, located at 318 Morris Avenue, Long Branch, originally featured an open air, pod-style design, has been redesigned to make it more modern and to improve the learning experience for children. The project, which was completed on Aug. 24, transformed the school which now features separate classrooms and hallways. The former design featured four pods separated by dividers that contained four classrooms each. The classrooms were also given whiteboards, overheard projectors and cubby hole storage areas for children to place their belongings. "It's…
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Total budget lower than 2011-12 budget
The Long Branch School Board of Education adopted its 2012-13 budget during Wednesday night's meeting, and, although the total budget has decreased, it still shows a tax increase. Long Branch Superintendent Michael Salvatore said he was happy with next school year's budget. "We have a budget decrease despite costs going up," Salvatore said. The 2012-13 budget totals $90,768,046 a $197,684 decrease from the current budget. Of that total, $32,186,556 will be raised by the local tax levy, a $615,000 increase from last year. The board was allowed to vote on and approve the budget without a public vote, because the total tax levy increase is below the state-mandated tax levy cap. Governor Chris Christie recently passed legislation this year …
Monday, March 5, 2012
Superintendent held meeting this morning with parents
Long Branch Superintendent Michael Salvatore held a meeting with parents Monday morning to discuss last Thursday's incident where two maintenance employees allegedly bound and gagged four Gregory School students. The meeting reportedly lasted two hours as Salvatore explained the incident to 100 concerned parents. Salvatore will also attend tomorrow's Long Branch PTA meeting at Gregory School at 7 p.m. Parents were also sent a letter today describing what took place at Gregory School and were also informed that an investigation has been launched by the Long Branch Police, Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and Institutional Abuse/DYFS. As of the Monday afternoon, neither of two school-employed maintenance workers had been charged for …
Superintendent says he was "surprised" to see decrease
The Long Branch School District will see a decrease in state aid for the next school year. The district, which is classified as an Abbott District, will receive $41,795,235 for the 2012-13 season, a $100,229 decrease from the current school year's state aid allocation. Long Branch School District Superintendent Michael Salvatore said he was "surprised" to see the decrease. "(Governor Chris Christie) was so encouraging about the increase in state aid and the investment in children to secure a brighter future," Salvatore said in a statement. "Nonetheless, I was a bit surprised to see the dip in state aid to Long Branch as our enrollment increased along with our free and reduced lunch population." The district has 5,445 registered students …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Power was out for about 40 minutes
Power has been restored to Long Branch Middle School after an early morning outage. The area around Long Branch Middle School experienced a power outage for about 40 minutes, according to the school district's Facebook page. The district has an emergency generator, so there were only minor disruptions to the schedule. The power was restored around 9:05 a.m. and all students were back on schedule, according to the district.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Event set for Friday, Dec. 23
The Long Branch Public School District is giving back to the community this holiday season. The district is hosting a community holiday brunch for all Long Branch families on Friday, Dec. 23, at the Gregory Elementary School, 201 Monmouth Avenue. The event will begin at 11:30 a.m. and run for two hours. The free event holiday brunch will include live music, a family-style meal, activities, arts and crafts, face painting and pictures with Santa. The afternoon's menu will unclude roasted turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce, homemade stuffing & mashed potatoes, steamed vegetables, grilled chicken, penne vodka, pop corn chicken, macaroni & cheese, mixed greens with dressing, rolls & butter. There will also be several delicious desserts …
seeya tax payer
10:34 am on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
GOV CHRISTIE IS RIGHT, WHY THROW OUR TAX MONEY AWAY AT AN ABBOTT DISTRICT SCHOOL---LONG BRANCH SAT SCORES ARE GOING BACKWARDS---IN 2010--SAT SCORE WERE---1307----IN 2012----SAT IS 1257--SECOND FROM THE BOTTOM IN TWO COUNTIES---- OCEAN AND MONMOUTH-OUT OF 49 SCHOOLS---SO OUR TAXES KEEP GOING UP WITH POOR RESULTS-MAYBE STATE TAKE OVER LIKE CAMEDEN????? more ›