DAILY CLIPS. 7/2/09

Star-Ledger

•  N.J. court refuses to stop new school funding formula challenged by Loch Arbour
• Column: Killing N.J.'s 26 "non-operating" school districts hurts small town taxpayers
• School districts improve under 'No Child' grading
• Editorial: N.J. budget: On time, this time
• Montville school board hires headhunter for superintendent search
• 8th-grader wins 1st place in essay contest
• Morris Plains teachers get raises, a new health care plan
• Fort Lee guidance counselor charged with falsifying, tampering student transcripts

Asbury Park Press

• Editorial: Super challenge ahead in Asbury
• Red Bank superintendent gives generously back to district
• State eliminates 2 local school districts
• Toms River Township, school district share services for common cause

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• Principal is interim superintendent
• Flooded fields a problem at middle school
• Schools for students with learning disabilities to remain open

Trenton Times

• More students meeting standards
• Editorial: Timing way off
• Pennington School grad gets

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Fewer N.J. schools on federal 'need improvement' list
• Two charter-school officials charged
• Phila. union president says teacher morale 'very low'

New York Times

• Facing Deficits, Some States Cut Summer School
• Senate Impasse Forces City to Revive Old School Board, in Name
• Aspiring Lawyer Finds Debt Is Bigger Hurdle Than Bar Exam

Courier Post

• District awaits donations to fund athletic field
• 9 districts need improvement
• Lacking schools, districts merged

Atlantic City Press

• Pleasantville's new superintendent assigns staff homework
• Shiloh, Hopewell districts merged
• Changes are paying off for Atlantic City and Middle Township schools
• Changes paying off in A. C., Middle Township schools
• N.J. eliminates 13 non-operating school districts, including Shiloh
• CCC announces nursing program

Burlington Co. Times

• 2 county students awarded scholarships
• Willingboro restructures high school

Courier News/Home News Tribune

• Corzine signs bill eliminating Helmetta school district
• 2 percent raises slated for Edison schools officials met with criticism
• Preschool Prep, Toddler Hour planned
• Local Montessori school expands programs
• ESL classes to resume in September
• Plainfield, North Plainfield school districts removed from 'in need of improvement' list
• Corzine signs bill, merging 3 Central Jersey no-school districts with larger, neighboring zones
• North Hunterdon, Voorhees rank among the top schools

Jersey Journal

• More schools meeting fed rules many in Hudson still lagging

New Jersey Herald

• High Point falls short in math

Gloucester Co. Times

• 40% of Gloucester County schools still fail No Child Left Behind'

Today's Sunbeam

• Combined Board of Education members sworn in to historic panel
• State contributes $3.1M to Quinton School rehab

The News of Cumberland County

• Commercial school budget approved with no changes
• Millville Police Blotter - vandals throw eggs in foyer of Silver Run School -bad grades?
• BEN column - no more K-8 schools?

Daily Journal

• Column: Examine yourself when hiring leaders
• Nursing program comes to college

Daily Record

• Victory Gardens school district eliminated
• Morris Hills closer to dropping 'in need of improvement' label

Express-Times

• Warren Hills Regional, Phillipsburg students make notable strides on state assessment tests
• Phillipsburg, Warren Hills Regional removed from N.J. list of school districts needing improvement

Trentonian

• NJ says more school districts meeting standards

National News

• First day of school for new superintendent (Austin American Statesman)
• Questions developed for school hopefuls (Baltimore Sun)
• Other school districts may follow Highland Park's lead on class rank (Dallas Morning News)
• Lakeview-Centennial High in Garland to offer associate's degree program (Dallas Morning News)
• Home-based Head Start set (Kennebec Journal)
• LAUSD school buses are going green NORTH HOLLYWOOD - The standard yellow paint on the fleet of 78 new school buses conceals a secret- They've all gone green. (Los Angeles Daily News)
• Laid-off Broward teachers may have spots to fill (Miami Herald)
• School property tax relief will be smaller this year (Morning Call)
• Board of Education votes to keep Joel Klein (New York Daily News)
• Seattle Public Schools names new chief academic officer (Seattle Times)
• Jefferson Chamber to propose charter school for at-risk students (Times Picayune)

DAILY CLIPS, 7/1/09

Star-Ledger

• Parents join forces, raise funds to boost school district

Asbury Park Press

• CWA ratifies revised contract
• Column: Call that a good start
• Loch Arbour fails to win delay in school taxes increase

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• NJ school districts without schools face last days
• Teterboro, Rockleigh losing school districts
• Mixed grades for Board of Ed site
• Paterson's new Board of Ed. site a hit with staff
• Teachers agree to 4% pay hike
• 3 Tenafly teens charged in exam breach

New Jersey Newsroom.com

• State employees union members OK controversial contract
• School's out for non-operating districts in New Jersey
• Corzine OKs vote-by-mail legislation

Trenton Times

• Arguments to be heard in Boychoir sexual suit
• Eden Run for Autism
• Hopewell Valley senior honored

Philadelphia Inquirer

• N.J. makes financial literacy a graduation requirement
• Teacher-certification programs booming in N.J.
• Law likely to eliminate non-operating school districts
• N.J. workers union OKs furloughs, raise freeze
• Phila.-area charter school fights revocation in court
• Stolen student funds repaid to Germantown High

New York Times

• New York Schools Added Jobs, Many at Top Dollar
• Council Votes for Two Muslim School Holidays
• High School Stars Honored With Theater Awards
• As Law Expires, Bloomberg Moves to Keep Authority Over Schools

Courier Post

• No indictments in crash that killed teacher
• Tiny school districts doomed

Atlantic City Press

• Sick relative: You can now get paid leave
• Bill clears way to eliminate school districts with no schools
• Change comes to leadership for Pleasantville School District
• Greater Egg board replaces band director at Absegami

Burlington Co. Times

• Pemberton Borough School District is history
• Driver won't be charged

Courier News/Home News Tribune

• Rocky Hill among NJ school districts without schools to be merged
• Opinion: Merger plan more for show than saving dough
• Opinion: Age no barrier to education
• After 41 years, Metuchen High's 'fiercest fan' Novak announces retirement
• Disabled North Brunswick man, 20, sets sights on public service
• Environmental officials highlight energy report in Lebanon Borough solar farm program

New Jersey Herald

• Branchville school district to close

Gloucester Co. Times

• Merger law to affect Newfield, 25 other 'non-operating' school districts
• Editorial: Some winners in bill marathon

Today's Sunbeam

• Book closes on N.J. school districts without schools
• Pennsville school district changing grading system

News of Cumberland Co.

• No more Shiloh School District, but nobody told Hopewell Board of Education president
• Three males with burglary in their hearts enter Bridgeton elementary school, but the alarm bell is honest

Daily Record

• Teachers get 12.6% raise over 3 years
• Opinion: Doing away with districts without schools

Express-Times

• Hampton Ends School Uniform Talk

Princeton Packet Newspapers

• CENTRAL JERSEY: Somerset districts on merger list
• ROBBINSVILLE- Local school employee charged with invasion of privacy

WTKR.com (Channel 3)

• New law in New Jersey aims to close the book on school districts ...

National News

• Book Closes on N.J. School Districts Without Schools (Associated Press)
• Schools opt out of laptop plan (Bangor Daily News)
• State rules in favor of young transgender (Bangor Daily News)
• It will cost groups more to play ball (Bucks Co. Courier-Times)
• Board approves tentative contract (Bucks Co. Courier-Times)
• School leader defends supt. buyout (Charlotte Observer)
• Gaston to rehire 650 teachers (Charlotte Observer)
• States, Districts in Delicate Dance on Stimulus (Education Week)
• Rulffes named Nevada superintendent of the year (Las Vegas Sun)
• Kiski School's wood shop class crafts Greenland-style kayaks (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Nine school districts in Sacramento region face financial scrutiny (Sacramento Bee)

DAILY CLIPS, 6/30/09

Star-Ledger

• Governor approves $29B tab
• Column: Loch Arbour - Tiny town's tax bills to double under Corzine's 'reform'

Asbury Park Press

• Column: No wonder they missed the $725 million
• Island Heights school board to meet July 20

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• Wanaque School gets new principal
• Work on Bergenfield track set to start

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Corzine signs $29 billion N.J. budget
• Area schools squeezed by budget pinch
• Phila. gets ready for summer - and school

New York Times

• Players’ Privacy Law Is Brought Into Question
• Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh
• New Plan Ties Reduced College Loan Payments to Income
• Utah University Lifts Ban on YouTube
• Scholarships for College Dwindle as Providers Pull Back Their Support

Courier Post

• LEAP graduates, school began journey together

Atlantic City Press

• Bill clears way to eliminate school districts with no schools

Burlington Co. Times

• Bill would ban felons from school boards
• Loss of district has residents on the alert
• State forces merger

Jersey Journal

• 2nd Garcia scholarship winner going to Rutgers

Gloucester Co. Times

• Governor Corzine signs off on state budget cuts to rebates, vice tax hikes

Daily Journal

• Survey: Vineland students lost out

Daily Record

• Join team, skip gym at Chatham High
• Environmental science course to offered by Centenary College in fall

National News

• Austin school district sues to keep search documents secret (Austin American Statesman)
• Special education funding falls short of meeting need (Bucks County Courier Times)
• Fort Mill Schools to lay off 9 (Charlotte Observer)
• Lakota schools cut 27 jobs (Cincinnati Enquirer)
• When bathrooms open, so can the school (Las Vegas Sun)
• Deaf pupils in danger of losing their school (Las Vegas Sun)
• School officials not amused by comedian's photo shoot (Los Angeles Times)
• Quakertown district adjusts schedules (Morning Call)
• Mental hospitals may lose schools (News & Observer)
• No applicants yet for Wake school board vacancy (News & Observer)
• Woodland Hills passes budget with tax increase (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Peters schools pass budget with 3-mill tax increase (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Natomas school board deflects blame in purchase of overpriced school site (Sacramento Bee)
• School board back in charge in Oakland (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Mo. governor signs on to national school standards (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• School vouchers study finds little difference between public schools, private schools (St. Petersburg Times)

DAILY CLIPS, 6/27 - 6/29/09

• Editorial: Deal with New Jersey's pension problems
• Third-graders carve names in history
• Roselle Pk. board to take the reins of youth center
• Decision to place new medical school in S. Jersey assailed

Asbury Park Press

• Corzine expected to sign $29B budget today
• Global classroom for Raritan teacher
• Long Island woman Asbury Park's new superintendent

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• Editorial: The Record: Autism coverage
• Opinion: Ahearn: Whew! N.J. finally has a budget
• New program could reduce student loan debt
• Thriving Rutgers an ‘unbeatable’ ticket

Trenton Times

• On the menu: Sign-up for free lunches
• Bronx program turning teens into leaders
• Islamic society grows in central Jersey

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Tough budget won't make the next one easier
• Rowan, Cooper to run new medical school in Camden
• Penn State extends reach worldwide with international programs

New York Times

• As Cultures Clash, Brooklyn Principal Faces Assault Charges
• In Uncertain Times, Valedictorians Look Ahead
• They Taught Him to Fish, Then Let Go
• Are Parents Thinking Differently About Education?
• Scholarships for College Dwindle as Providers Pull Back Their Support
• Utah University Lifts Ban on YouTube

Courier Post

• Editorial: New Jersey needs fewer election days
• Editorial: Cheer to top teachers; Jeer for trash fight
• Hard work to hugs for Camden grads
• Salutatorian found voice after long journey to S. J.
• School agreement to end between Newfield, Buena
• Autism insurance bill could become law
• Bill allows schools to know of charges
• Met East seniors proudly move on
• Editorial: Medical school is another boost

Atlantic City Press

• Stockton, Atlantic City schools to partner in learning
• Ocean City plans vote on school renovations
• Vineland will keep class groups despite criticisms
• Rowan to build medical school at Cooper Health Care Campus
• Stockton makes early plans to use new financing law

Burlington Co. Times

• Free summer meals program offers youngsters good nutrition

Courier News/Home News Tribune

• Track camp comes to high school
• Woodbridge students stash memories for the future
• Colorful murals reflect spectrum of school community in Woodbridge
• Veteran principal looking forward to new post at Catholic school in South Amboy
• Downturn in economy spells upswing in free and reduced-price school lunches in Central Jersey schools
• Saint Ann School offers math, art camps
• Public schools participate in Project Child Find
• Editorial: Vo-Tech building better citizens through its EMT course for teens

Jersey Journal

• 3 new faces named to Bayonne Board of Education

New Jersey Herald

• Vernon applauds middle school students for Lenape tribe work
• Wantage School gets new principal

Gloucester Co. Times

• New Jersey Assembly OKs school notification bill
• Colleges in Gloucester County aim to keep budget cuts outside of the classroom

Today's Sunbeam

• Pennsville board of education fills vacant position

News of Cumberland Co.

• Fairfield Township's black history effort ripped
• Maurice River BOE OKs personnel adjustments

Daily Journal

• Column: Last one to leave can turn out the lights
• Pittsgrove bus flap pits township against schools
• Recent grad's parents try to make sense of son's death
• Pittsgrove teen killed while biking
• Editorial: College should take its time in selecting leader

Daily Record

• Technology school receives donation of tools

Express-Times

• Centenary College to offer new film studies concentration
• OPINION: Nazareth Area School District is the key to equitable library funding, services

Princeton Packet Newspapers

• EAST WINDSOR: School district’s sports doctor has license suspended
• WEST WINDSOR: HS student wins National History Day title
• Students need to learn about personal finance

General News Media Newspapers

• Spotswood board mulls potential referendum
• Community teams up to set goals for district
• Edison H. S. teacher, coach charged with sexual assault
• Met. schools to start search for new Metuchen High School principal

National News

• Study looks at turnover among Chicago teachers (Associated Press)
• Missouri's minimum teacher salaries rising (Associated Press)
• Nurturing a love of math, sciences (Baltimore Sun)
• Graduation anthem sparks discussion (Bucks Co. Courier-Times)
• Making budget won't be getting any easier (Bucks Co. Courier-Times)
• Whitehall OKs tax hike in school budget (Morning Call)
• Disability Inc. (San Francisco Chronicle)
• The exit exam debate (San Francisco Chronicle)
• State oversight continues at Central, Hernando high schools after FCAT gains fall short (St. Petersburg Times)
• Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Public Schools? (Time)
• Montgomery Program Embraces Peer Review (Washington Post)
• Don't Mess With This High-Achieving School (Washington Post)

DAILY CLIPS, 6/26/09

NJSBA BoardBlog

• How a Bill Becomes a Law – In Trenton and in Bikini Bottom

Star-Ledger

• Column: At the budget hearings in Trenton

Asbury Park Press

• $1.2B tax hikes get OK
• Freehold Regional board OKs administrator salaries
• Manalapan-Englishtown school board OKs salaries, raises
• Central adds midterms to student requirements
• Editorial: No free lunch with preschool

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• At forum, participants urged to tap into college's future
• Rutgers to see record enrollment this fall

New Jersey Newsroom.com

• N.J. Legislature approves economic stimulus bill
• N.J. Legislature approves $29 billion state budget

Trenton Times

• School staffer charged with spying on female coworkers
• MCCC partners with Paterson U. to offer several degree programs

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Budget of $29B approved in N.J.
• A Catholic high school for Gloucester Co. is deferred
• Area colleges joining veteran-aid program
• Another college is adding weekends

New York Times

• New Jersey Passes Budget Fueled by $1 Billion in Tax Increases
• Supreme Court Sides With Arizona in Language Case
• Supreme Court Says Child’s Rights Violated by Strip Search
• Recession’s Children
• Home Schooling, Home Teams
• New School Year Will Start a Day Late
• He’s Never Left Astoria Behind

Courier Post

• Legislature approves budget
• Pupil strip search out of bounds
• Hidden cameras found in N.J. elementary school
• Cooper Hospital gets leg up on new college
• Rowan proud of ties to Camden

Atlantic City Press

• State lawmakers approve tax-laden budget
• Millville School site of emergency management drill from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. today
• Pinelands Class of 2009 stays merry despite mud
• Editorial: Applying for Financial Aid / An easier FAFSA

Burlington Co. Times

• Legislators divided on budget vote
• Highlights of NJ budget approved Thursday
• NJ Senate approves $29B state budget

Courier News/Home News Tribune

• Who's afraid of big, bad el lobo?
• Dinner to recognize scholarship winners
• Watchung Rotary Club honors local teachers
• Fossils, minerals and T. Rex … oh my!
• Book drive opens new chapter for African children
• Bringing history to life
• New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association

New Jersey Herald

• Ethics charges approved against Sussex-Wantage board's Jacobs

Gloucester Co. Times

• $29B New Jersey budget gets a late OK
• Westville environmental commission plants rain garden at Parkview Elementary School

Today's Sunbeam

• Assembly OK's New Jersey budget; Senate debates measure into the night
• Judge: Pittsgrove school buses can use garage

Daily Journal

• State budget earns few fans
• Millville IDs 8 sites for new high school
• Editorial: Building some solid plans for new high school
• Buena Regional, Newfield sever 30-year school agreement
• MERCER COUNTY: Hidden cameras found in elementary school

Daily Record

• Morris Hills hands out 288 diplomas

Express-Times

• 237 Graduate From Delaware Valley Regional High School
• No Poconos Retreat For Hunterdon County School Chiefs
• Hackettstown native launches local branch of Ivy Insiders test prep company
• Centenary College to offer new costume design concentration

Trentonian

• Cops: School techie hooked cameras under females’ desks

National News

• CPS to test teens for STDs (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Denver schools set graduation goals (Denver Post)
• Detroit Public Schools to cut 1,700 employees (Detroit News)
• Broward teachers bargain for raises in hard times (Miami Herald)
• Allentown schools chief to retire in June 2010 (Morning Call)
• Easton Area School Board passes budget (Morning Call)
• Secretary charged with changing daughter's grades (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Elementary upheaval (Rutland Herald)
• In tough times, districts look to lease vacant schools (Sacramento Bee)
• Developer opens new school despite bankruptcy, lawsuits (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Tennessee, Georgia relax rules on charter schools (The Tennessean)

DAILY CLIPS, 6/25/09

Star-Ledger

• Editorial: South Plainfield High graduation: School board should have banned drunk prom-goers
• Column: Students' underage drinking should be addressed by police, not schools

Asbury Park Press

• Howell redistricting angers parents of special-needs pupils
• Freehold Twp. school administrators to get 3% raises

Record/North Jersey Herald News

• Herald News Editorial: In praise of sidewalks
• Teen booze cruise: Who's responsible?
• Flu closes center
• Newly hired school chief won't take Ridgefield post
• A timeout for N. Y. C.  teachers

New Jersey Newsroom.com

• Oops! Wrong year blemishes N.J. high school's yearbook
• New York paying teachers to do nothing

Trenton Times

• WW-P language teacher appeals to board to save job
• Trenton students make

Philadelphia Inquirer

• Wm. Penn High closing in Phila. put off
• Senators grill School Reform Commission nominee
• SRC postpones vote on New Media's charter

Courier Post

• In Woodbury, graduates ready to face future

Burlington Co. Times

• 'The tassel was worth the hassle'

Courier News/Home News Tribune

• S. Plainfield board members defend graduation decision
• South Brunswick teens learn about wars from veterans who lived it, fought it
• South Plainfield blew the chance to teach its grads a big life lesson

Jersey Journal

• McNair team to compete in D.C.
• West New York health educator is Hudson's Teacher of Year

Gloucester Co. Times

• Rain passes, Woodbury grads celebrate
• Editorial: Red flag on limit for Red Raiders
• Ex-GCC president among cuts

Today's Sunbeam

• Pennsville district working on campus schooling plan
• Vo-Tech holds last BOE meeting

News of Cumberland Co.

• Students serve internships at Food Innovation Center in Bridgeton

Daily Journal

• Millville unveils high school plans
• Public weighs in on search for Vineland schools chief

Daily Record

• Mt. Olive Schools mull pay increase for top staffers
• 30 who rode post-prom "party bus" from NYC enter not guilty pleas
• Randolph H. S. student sues over YouTube video

Express-Times

• New Jersey Department of Education rejects Phillipsburg School District's stimulus funding requests
• South Hunterdon Graduate: It's Always Time To Learn

National News

• Summit tackles education barriers for American Indians (Arizona Daily News)
• NAACP- School transfers at issue in Forsyth, Gwinnett (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
• Bastrop switches school bus service after safety complaints (Austin American Statesman)
• Superintendent gets $5,000 bonus (Bucks Co. Courier-Times)
• CMS shows big gains on N.C. tests; at-risk schools improve (Charlotte Observer)
• School cuts will cause 'chaos,' teachers say (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Safety is priority in Zionsville laptop program (Indianapolis Star)
• Towns OK budget for new school unit (Kennebec Journal)
• Test scores don’t quantify progress at all schools (Las Vegas Sun)
• Home-schoolers embrace Free Minds (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Springfield gets permit to expand two schools (Rutland Herald)