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Schools Ban Facebook Application
Verona High School and HBW Middle School sent e-mails to parents today notifying them that students at both have been using school computers to go on a “Facebook application site that allowed students to engage in inappropriate dialogue.” School officials said they have blocked access to the site from school computers and recommended that parents [...]
BOE Braces For Possibly “Drastic” Cuts
The poor economy’s effect on Verona schools’ bottom line is coming into focus, and one thing is clear: It’s going to be painful. On Thursday, Governor Chris Christie unveiled the state’s new austerity budget for the present year, which includes a freeze on payments to school districts. “It’s still preliminary, but the freeze has the [...]
A Squirrel Done It
It was a furry, four-legged computer hacker that wreaked havoc on the computer system for Verona schools for two days this week. The culprit was publicly identified by Superintendent Charles Sampson at last night’s Board of Education meeting. The fiber-optic cable outside H.B. Whitehorne Middle School that became a squirrel’s chew toy has been repaired, [...]
Thanks A Ton–And A Half!
A school-wide food drive delivered a staggering 2,942 pounds of food for the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair today. The Conference of SCAs, a coalition of the parent groups at all of the town’s public schools, organized the collection day. Food was brought in to H.B. Whitehorne, F.N. Brown, Forest Avenue, Laning Avenue, Brookdale [...]
Verona Schools Test Homework Web Site
If you see your highschooler on what seems to be a social-networking site when you thought she was doing her homework, don’t assume she isn’t. A handful of Verona High School teachers are test-driving a free, Internet-based system that allows students to interact virtually with their teachers and other students for educational purposes. The system [...]
School Budget Uncertain
Verona residents have plenty of uncertainty to deal with on the tax front these days. What the recent property tax reval will mean to household bottom lines probably won’t be known until the summer, after the town’s fiscal year starts. The school budget is in limbo, too, but for an entirely different reason. School officials [...]
Language Disabilities Bill Becomes Law
State senators voted unanimously on Thursday for legislation supporting children with language-based disabilities. As we reported last week, the new law requires New Jersey to set up a task force to explore a new mandate that public schools provide diagnostic testing for children with language deficits. The task force will also investigate instructional practices to [...]