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New Year, New BOE Members!
Hello readers, welcome back and Happy New Year! It has been quiet here at OurSchoolsRoxbury as we took some time off over the holidays. We wanted to be sure to update everyone in the new year regarding changes with our own BOE. Our last BOE meeting on January 4th. This meeting was a reorganization meeting Read More…
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Roxbury BOE Meet the Candidates
Welcome back readers! Today we hope to summarize and fact check the information shared at Meet the Candidates! We also want to be very clear, we are not endorsing any candidates, and we are not involved in any BOE campaign. We are simply sharing information through the lens of what is important to us, which Read More…
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FACTS, not Fear: The truth about test scores
The groups pushing for the dismantling of public education as we know it, love to bring up test scores. They are fed these same talking points from the same organizations that want to end public education. They will put out facts (test scores did decline) but then misrepresent the data and what it means. They Read More…
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Roxbury BOE Voting History for Professional Development
Long ago we promised to revisit the intriguing occurrence of board members voting against allowing teachers to attend training or professional development. Time got away from us but here is the information! The people who have been regularly voting NO on these trainings, are Board members, Ann Colucci, Christopher Milde, Sharon MacGregor, and Kathy Purcell. Read More…
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Freedom to Read Act
Yesterday the Freedom to Read Act passed Assembly and will now go to the Senate to be voted on. What does the bill really say??? This bill requires local BOEs to adopt a policy on curation of library material, it discusses that the material be inclusive, and age and grade appropriate. The bill does discuss Read More…
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Roxbury BOE Election Updates- Education. Respect. Growth.
Facebook page Website Last post we updated you on the BOE campaign slate including incumbent Kathy Purcell. Here is more information regarding the other slate running for Roxbury BOE. The Education. Respect. Growth. slate consists of Kim Hopkins, Andrew Schlam, and Mirna Hernandez. Here is a picture their campaign posted on Olde Suckasunny Day. Pictured Read More…
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Roxbury BOE Election Updates – Education First
Facebook page Facebook group Website Hello and welcome back readers! Today we have updates on this year’s BOE election. This past weekend was Olde Suckasunny Day, which often has marked the event in which BOE candidates first meet the public and share information about their campaign. Shout out to the Roxbury Public Library, First Presbyterian Read More…
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July Meeting Updates and Election News
Hello Readers, Here is a quick update on the last regular BOE meeting held on 7/22/24. The Preschool expansion grant was discussed which would bring full day universal preschool to the district. This would be free and available to children of Roxbury between ages 3-4. Dr. Santora explained that Roxbury should be considered on the Read More…
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Next meeting
Hello again readers, Our next BOE meeting is this Monday July 22nd at 7:30pm at Lincoln Roosevelt. 34 N Hillside Ave, Succasunna. Click here to read the agenda. Most notably we have 8 resignations from staff, including well liked RHS principal Dominick Miller. This is a total of 44 resignations this calendar year (64 in Read More…
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June Meeting updates, and some talk about ethics….
Welcome back readers, Here are some updates from the last BOE meeting on June 24th. BOE President Coakley led the meeting and thanked all the educators involved in all graduation and moving up ceremonies this year as well as thanking them for all they do for their students. He stated that he had shared a Read More…
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