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NJ District To Cut 51 Teachers, Staff In 'Most Difficult' Budget Of Superintendent's Career NJ District To Cut 51 Teachers, Staff In 'Most Difficult' Budget Of Superintendent's Career
NJ District To Cut 51 Teachers, Staff In 'Most Difficult' Budget Of Superintendent's Career In his 31 years of leading school districts, East Brunswick Public Schools Superintendent Victor Valeski said he'd never had to craft a school budget as difficult as the one for 2024-25. There was an $7.8 million rise in costs and $1.3 million reduction in state aid in next year's school budget.  "This is by far the hardest and most impactful," Valeski told Daily Voice. A total of 51 staff members had to be eliminated, Valeski said. The cuts included 15 teachers, 10 instructional coaches, seven school counselors and the assistant superintendent of student activities and services. Th…

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by Jon Craig
Neighbors
Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players
Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players The players from East Side High School's girls varsity soccer team were in desperate need. Fortunately, some law enforcement officers based at Newark Liberty International Airport pitched in to help.  Coach Juan Alvarez created an account on Donorschoose.org, where educators and students can post requests for funds for school-related needs. When Officer Manual Martinez of the Port Authority police came across the request online and reached out to Alvarez, he learned that the girls were in desperate need of new uniforms.  The Port Authority command at Newark Liberty banded together…

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by Paul Milo
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After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy
After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy A college student and Democratic Party activist has started a petition calling for the Ronald Reagan Academy in Elizabeth to be renamed after a recording of the 40th president referring to Africans as "monkeys" emerged a few weeks ago.  Ricky Castaneda, 21, launched the petition on Change.org and hopes to have it signed by 1,000 people in time for the next Elizabeth Board of Education meeting Aug 22.  "In [the] wake of the damaging October 1971 racist phone conversation between Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon that recently surfaced, outraged human/civil rights a…

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by Paul Milo