Monday, November 19, 2012
Storm eliminated days targeted for training in curriculum and technology.
District school teachers told the Hillsborough Board of Education at its most recent meeting that that they are concerned they may be shortchanged by the staff development days lost in the aftermath of Sandy. The school district had originally scheduled Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 5-7, as in-service days. Coupled with the New Jersey Education Association convention set for Nov. 8-9, students would have a full week off from school. But Sandy changed all that. Schools were closed the week of Oct. 29. Schools were unable to open Nov. 5 and 6 because of power outages. And the NJEA cancelled its convention because of the storm’s impact on Atlantic City. Because state law requires public schools to be in session for 180 days, the “snow…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
More days off will mean shorter spring break for students, as well as some other possible choices.
Any more school days lost to inclement weather or other circumstances would put the remaining 2012-13 school calendar in jeopardy. Unlike many other school districts throughout New Jersey, Hillsborough lost only five days in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Superintendent of Schools Jorden Schiff said at Monday’s school board meeting. Hillsborough schools were closed from Monday, Oct. 29 through Tuesday, Nov. 6 as utility workers struggled to restore power to all parts of the township and the district’s nine schools. School had been scheduled to be closed the week of Nov. 5 for three in-service days and two days for the annual New Jersey Education Association teachers convention in Atlantic City. The school district was able to make up …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
About 50 come to school board meeting to lobby for calendar change.
About 50 township residents came to Monday’s Board of Education meeting to ask the district to include Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, as an official school holiday. The request came as the board approved the calendar for the 2013-14 school year. Diwali won’t be an issue for that school year because the holiday falls on Nov. 3, a Sunday in 2013. But the question returns in 2014 when Diwali falls on a Thursday (Oct. 23) and in 2015 when the holiday is on Nov. 11 (a Wednesday), which is also Veterans Day. According to the 2010 Census, the number of Indian-Americans in Hillsborough more than doubled from the 2000 Census, from 1,038 in 2000 to 2,237 in 2010, a 115.5 percent increase. The group makes up close to 6 percent of the township’…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Board of Education set the last day of the 2012-2013 school year, but the rest of the calendar hasn't been determined.
In 2013, graduation will be held on June 20—but the Board of Education is still deciding the calendar for the rest of the 2012-2013 school year. That’s because several Board members had questions about the calendar presented at the board’s Monday meeting. That calendar, which was the sixth draft of the document, had students beginning school Sept. 6, attending school Nov. 5 but being off the rest of the week, and being in school on the Monday after Easter and the Friday before Memorial Day. It includes two in-service days on Sept. 4 and 5, owing to an early Labor Day in 2012. The calendar draft also provides just two snow days, according to Education Committee Chairman Judy Haas. Setting the graduation date allows Project Graduation, which…
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