Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Hoboken Board of Education held its annual re-organization meeting on Monday, for the first time in January.
Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and Ruth McAllister were sworn in as school board members on Monday night. Mitchell returns for the second time — she served for a year in 2010 — and McAllister started her second term. Kluepfel is starting his first term on the board. For the first time in three years, the board also has a new president. Leon Gold, a member of the Kids First coalition, will be taking over the gavel from Rose Marie Markle. Markle has served the board as president for the past three years. McAllister was re-appointed as board vice president. The board members all took their oath and the code of ethics was read into the record by the board secretary. A good reminder, McAllister said, of what a board member is supposed to do…
Friday, October 26, 2012
Seven school board candidates are fighting for three open seats on the board of education.
The seven candidates running for Hoboken’s board of education in the November 6 elections, all tried to convey their passion, experience and insights into the district on Thursday night during a roughly two-hour forum at the Demarest auditorium. While attendance from the public was scarce—roughly 60 people attended the debate, the vast majority of whom are already involved in local politics or hold elected office in town—the atmosphere was just as serious. Questions for the candidates were submitted by the audience members, much like in previous years, and the night was moderated by Bob Bowdon. The Move Forward candidates—Anthony Oland, Elizabeth Markevitch and Felice Vazquez—spent much of the time pointing out the weaknesses of the …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Students from all five Hoboken public schools displayed their art on Tuesday.
The finest student art the Hoboken public school district has to offer was on display Tuesday evening at the Monroe Center for the Arts. Over 150 students from all five Hoboken public schools presented their art work, including over a dozen Hoboken High students who are participating in the International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement academic programs. This is the sixth annual exhibit, which was created to feature the work of the IB art students. Michel Ising, the Hoboken High art teacher who coordinates the IB program, said that in recent years the exhibit expanded to include the school's other art and photography students, and that this year the other four public Hoboken schools participated. Student art from the Calabro, Connors …
ThisMeansWar
10:04 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Why are you wasting your time here inventing reasons other than turnout for why your BOE ticket lost? You have all that reading to do. more ›