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 …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Tom Kluepfel, one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School, is running for the Hoboken Board of Education.
After living in Hoboken for the past 32 years, the time to run for office in town is now for Tom Kluepfel. Kluepfel, 56, is running for school board on the Kids First ticket in the Tuesday Nov. 6 elections. With his children grown up—his son started college and his daughter is a junior at Hoboken High—Kluepfel said it was time to start giving back to the community and create educational opportunities for students. "I'm excited to get involved with Hoboken again," he said. More than a decade ago, Kluepfel was one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School. Being part of that, Kluepfel said, "was one of the most fulfilling things that I have done in my life." Kluepfel, who initially registered as an independent candidate, joined the …
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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 ›