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Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension By Cooperating Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension By Cooperating
Wyckoff School District: Principal Might Have Avoided Lengthy Suspension By Cooperating UPDATE: Administrative Law Judge Nanci Stokes said she'll tell the state commissioner of education that the Wyckoff Board of Education doesn't have to reinstate Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello while it continues an investigation. Stokes said Iasiello's appeal to immediately be reinstated doesn't "clearly and convicingly" prove that he's suffering irreparable harm, that there's a "reasonable probability of ultimate success" or that he'll endure greater harm than the Board of Education. It also doesn't establish any legal right to his claim, she found. The principal's …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated
Wyckoff School District: Principal Might've Avoided Lengthy Suspension Had He Cooperated UPDATE: Administrative Law Judge Nanci Stokes said she'll tell the state commissioner of education that the Wyckoff Board of Education doesn't have to reinstate Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello while it continues an investigation. Stokes said Iasiello's appeal to immediately be reinstated doesn't "clearly and convicingly" prove that he's suffering irreparable harm, that there's a "reasonable probability of ultimate success" or that he'll endure greater harm than the Board of Education. It also doesn't establish any legal right to his claim, she found. The principal's …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others
Teacher At School That Principal Left Gets 6 Months No-Pay For Hitting Student, Touching Others Already dealing with the mysterious departure of their principal and vice-principal, parents of students at Wyckoff’s middle school learned this week that a teacher there was recently disciplined for inappropriately touching students. As with the abrupt departure of Eisenhower Middle School Principal Christopher Iasiello and Assistant Principal Christopher Giordano, parents this week said they had no idea that an arbitrator two weeks ago upheld a six-month suspension without pay for teacher Scott Levy. No announcements were made nor information shared, parents in the northwest Bergen Count…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Where Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal Go? Those Who Know Won't Say Where Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal Go? Those Who Know Won't Say
Where Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal Go? Those Who Know Won't Say It’s been nearly a month since their local middle school principal and his second in command suddenly "vanished" from the district, and concerned parents in Wyckoff, as well as their children, still have no idea why. Had they gotten into some kind of trouble? Were they fired? Did they quit? “We found out that we had no principal and vice-principal through the hair salon and through town gossip,” prominent civil attorney Michael Epstein said during a Wyckoff Board of Education Zoom meeting Monday night. Parents in the northwest Bergen County town who are concerned for their children’s safet…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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How Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? Those Who Know Won't Say How Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? Those Who Know Won't Say
How Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? Those Who Know Won't Say It’s been nearly a month since their local middle school principal and his second in command suddenly "vanished" from the district, and concerned parents in Wyckoff, as well as their children, still have no idea why. Had they gotten into some kind of trouble? Were they fired? Did they quit? “We found out that we had no principal and vice-principal through the hair salon and through town gossip,” prominent civil attorney Michael Epstein said during a Wyckoff Board of Education Zoom meeting Monday night. Parents in the northwest Bergen County town who are concerned for their children’s safet…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
TikTok Users Mourn Morris County Middle School Cheerleader Maya Guberman, 13 TikTok Users Mourn Morris County Middle School Cheerleader Maya Guberman, 13
TikTok Users Mourn Morris County Middle School Cheerleader Maya Guberman, 13 TikTok users were making memorial duets using footage posted by Morris County middle schooler Maya Guberman. The Roxbury Junior Gaels cheerleader and Eisenhower Middle School eighth grader died on Feb. 13, at 13 years old. More than $41,300 had been raised as of Sunday on a GoFundMe launched by her aunt, Dana Guberman Taggart, a longtime school teacher in town. The Toms River native was a two-year member of Three Danes CrossFit and member of the Eisenhower Drama Club. She had thousands of TikTok followers -- many who were mourning her loss with special video tributes and leaving heartfel…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NY Driver, 16, Caught Tearing Up School Fields In Bergen NY Driver, 16, Caught Tearing Up School Fields In Bergen
NY Driver, 16, Caught Tearing Up School Fields In Bergen A 16-year-old driver from Warwick, NY tore up fields at schools in Wyckoff and Franklin Lakes, causing thousands of dollars in damage, authorities said. Damage to the field at Eisenhower Middle School in Wyckoff alone was estimated at $2,500, Lt. Joseph Soto said Tuesday. Investigating Detective Sgt. Michael Ragucci discovered that the boy also vandalized the field at Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes with the SUV, Soto said. The boy was taken into custody and given what is known as a stationhouse adjustment, under which police can release first-time juvenile offenders involved in petty…

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by Jerry DeMarco