Monday, November 12, 2012
Most schools have been closed since Oct. 29
After being closed for two weeks, all local schools will be open today. The Long Branch School District actually reopened on Friday, Nov. 9, but it was only a half day for students. Shore Regional High School, the West Long Branch School District and the Eatontown School District have been closed since Oct. 29, because of Hurricane Sandy's impact on the area. Shore Regional and West Long Branch will temporarily house Monmouth Beach Elementary School students after the school was damaged by the hurricane. Wolfe Hill School in Oceanport will also be a temporary home to Monmouth Beach Elementary School students. Monmouth Beach Pre K-kindergarten students will stay at Wolfe Hill School, grades 1, 2 and 3 will go to Betty McElmon Elementary …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
DOE Commissioner must still ratify decision
Interlaken children will still be allowed to attend the West Long Branch School District and Shore Regional after an administrative law judge recently handed down his ruling. Interlaken is a non-operating district and does not have any schools, but by state law, is a sending district to Asbury Park city schools. The interim executive Monmouth County superintendent, wrote the Interlaken board March 12 that it ignored a directive last August that said the district was sending the children on a sending-receiving basis that was not approved by the state commissioner and that contract had to be rescinded. This forced the schools' boards to take action to allow the students to continue to attend the West Long Branch schools. West Long Branch …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Districts will likely not share business administrator
Shore Regional and the West Long Branch School District will likely share a superintendent after a recent study concluded that it would be the best course of action for the schools Both schools have interim superintendents, and the report concluded that they enter a shared service arrangement for that position. The school districts, along with Monmouth Beach and Oceanport, entered into an agreement with Puleio & Strimple Associates in January to conduct a study to advise their boards of future options for providing administrative services. The openings at Shore Regional and West Long Branch, combined with decreased aid and a down economy prompted the school boards to go ahead with the study in hopes of saving money and moving toward …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Schools began allowing Interlaken children to attend in September.
The state has told the West Long Branch and Shore Regional School districts that they should not have accepted 19 Interlaken children. According to an Asbury Park Press article, Joseph F. Passiment Jr., the interim executive Monmouth County superintendent, wrote the Interlaken board March 12 that it ignored a directive last August that said the district was sending the children on a sending-receiving basis that was not approved by the state commissioner and that contract had to be rescinded. “The Interlaken Board of Education as well as the boards of education of West Long Branch and Shore Regional ignored the directive and continued to establish a sending-receiving relationship under a tuition contract basis for the 2011-2012 school year…
Monday, January 23, 2012
Both school's boards will discuss possibility of moving elections this week
The West Long Branch and Shore Regional school boards are carefully considering whether or not to move school elections from April to November. West Long Branch School District Interim Superintendent Herbert Massa said the board of education (BOE) will discuss the possibility during its meeting on Tuesday night at the Betty McElmon Elementary School at 7 p.m. Shore Regional High School Business Administrator Dennis Kotch said the BOE will vote on the matter at its meeting on Jan. 26. "The superintendent and I will be recommending to the board that they pass this resolution at our board meeting on Thursday," Kotch said in an email. "The board then must decide." The West Long Branch BOE has a resolution to move elections to November on its…
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
BOE now looking to fill vacant seat
The West Long Branch Board of Education (BOE) is looking to fill a vacant seat after board member Richard Santangelo resigned due to health reasons. "He has health issues he has to look into," West Long Branch School District Interim Superintendent Herbert Massa said. Massa said the board is now advertising to help find a candidate to fill the vacancy for the BOE, which now consists of eight members. "People will send in letters of interest, we will review them and we will interview the candidates in public," Massa said. Massa said he hopes to appoint a new board member at one of the BOE meetings in January, possibly the meeting on Jan. 24. "We have to appoint a new member within 65 days or the board will lose the authority to make that …
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Oceanport seeking to cut Director of Special Services and share position with West Long Branch, feasibility study to discover other possibilities for shared services with similar school districts nearby.
A proposed plan for Oceanport and West Long Branch school districts to cut costs by sharing a Director of Special Services was met with contention by Oceanport parents concerned the position would be too much for one person to handle. The plan, which was discussed at the Oceanport Board of Education's public workshop meeting at Maple Place Middle School on Thursday night, calls for the dismissal of Oceanport's current Director of Special Services, Robin Dunikoski, to share West Long Branch's director Lolly Yaconi. Oceanport would in turn share their Network Technician, Louis Pelissier, with West Long Branch, which currently does not have a technology officer. The Director of Special Services is responsible for facilitating a team that …
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
West Long Branch Board of Education hears input from other districts who share services
The West Long Branch School District and Shore Regional High School could begin sharing a superintendent and other services in the future. West Long Branch Interim Superintendent Herbert Massa said the West Long Branch Board of Education and Shore Regional Board of Education (BOE) have had discussions about sharing a superintendent in order to save money. "The boards of education in the region are looking at reducing expenses, and one way to do that is to share services," Massa said in an interview on Wednesday. Both schools currently have an interim superintendent, as Shore Regional hired Renae LaPrete on a temporary basis. Massa said this would be a good time to make the transition to a shared superintendent, because a new one could be …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Interim superintendent approved through Dec. 31
With the departure of former superintendent Karen Wood, Herbert C. Massa has taken over as interim superintendent of the West Long Branch Public School District. Massa, of Howell, is also listed as the school's business administrator and board secretary as of July 1. Massa is approved as the school's interim superintendent through Dec. 31, according to secretary Thea Shovlin. Massa came to West Long Branch after resigning as the Highstown Borough Administrator in March. According to East Windsor Patch, Massa got his start at the age of 21 in Howell, where he ended up spending 28 years as assistant superintendent and school board secretary before going onto other districts for the next 9 years. Wood left the school in June to take over as …
fran scott
9:30 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
the "out of district" student is not cost free. It takes attentiion away from those that were already there. the BOE has no right to giver a bargain rate to those not on the district. ask Sea Bright how they feel about paying what they do per each only to have ouut of district students receivingg a cut rate for the same services. The education bureacracy is only concerned about bodies in the … more ›