New Jersey
Office of the Governor | Murphy Administration Announces the Return of Jersey City Public Schools to Full Local Control
TRENTON – The New Jersey State Board of Training as we speak voted to return full native management to the Jersey Metropolis Board of Training, ending greater than 30 years of state management of district operations.
“That is actually a historic day for Jersey Metropolis, and one which I’m glad to see come to fruition,” stated Governor Phil Murphy. “After 33 years, I’m proud to see that full decision-making authority has been restored to the native board of schooling in Jersey Metropolis. Furthermore, I’m assured the neighborhood will proceed to rally round their college students to make sure that each little one in Jersey Metropolis has entry to a world-class schooling.”
“As we speak’s motion actually displays the significance of guaranteeing, to the best extent attainable, a neighborhood voice within the care and oversight of a neighborhood’s personal colleges,” stated Appearing Training Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan. “This milestone achievement is a results of the collaboration and energy of all key stakeholders on the state and native ranges, together with district and civic leaders, educators, dad and mom, and college students. Our congratulations exit to all the faculty neighborhood.”
That is the third faculty district to be faraway from state management below the Murphy Administration. The State Board of Training returned full native management to Paterson Public Colleges in January 2021, which had been below state management since 1991. In July 2020, full native management was returned to the Newark Public Colleges, which had been below state management since 1995.
“New Jersey’s public colleges are profitable when college students, households, academic leaders, and native residents are empowered to work collectively to offer enter that helps and uplifts the colleges of their neighborhood,” stated State Board of Training President Kathy Goldenberg. “As we speak’s motion by the State Board of Training absolutely restores the decision-making authority to the residents of Jersey Metropolis. This milestone is a credit score to the varsity district’s academics, workers, directors, Superintendent Norma Fernandez, Ed.D., and the Jersey Metropolis Board of Training. I’m assured that the Jersey Metropolis Public Colleges will construct upon its sustainable progress by persevering with to work collaboratively in the most effective curiosity of its college students.”
“That is actually a historic day for Jersey Metropolis. We’re grateful for the work of so many stakeholders to make at the present time a actuality. The method was lengthy, and the pandemic prolonged the final part. Nevertheless, the years of help and the delay allowed us to increase our studying and replicate on creating environment friendly methods in governance, instruction and applications, fiscal administration, and operations. Thus, permitting us to make moral selections to satisfy the wants of our neighborhood,” stated Dr. Norma Fernandez, Superintendent of Jersey Metropolis Public Colleges. “Our purpose for the Jersey Metropolis Public Colleges is to encourage and put together our students to confidently obtain their goals and ambitions, grasp future challenges and attain their fullest potential in a various, ever-changing world.”
In response to ongoing struggles the Jersey Metropolis faculty district had been going through for years, the State Board of Training decided in 1989 that state management was essential to make enhancements to the district. The NJDOE supported and assessed the district’s progress in assembly key benchmarks through the years as a way to transition again to native management. Throughout the multi-year transition interval, the NJDOE enlisted the companies of an impartial entity – the Bloustein Native Authorities Analysis Heart at Rutgers College – to create a Complete Accountability Workplace (CAO) and employed two Extremely Expert Professionals to help implementation of the transition plan and consider the district’s progress in areas equivalent to instruction and programming, governance, and financial administration.
As we speak the State Board of Training obtained the ultimate reviews from the CAO and the Extremely Expert Professionals, Dr. Stephen Cowan and Dr. Alexis Colander. In mild of their reviews confirming the district has efficiently met the required benchmarks to return to native management, the State Board of Training authorized a decision to return management of the district to the Jersey Metropolis Board of Training.

New Jersey
Paul McCartney spotted in Metuchen: This week in Central Jersey history, Feb. 24-March 2

It was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 that former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was spotted in front of the Buttery Bake Shoppe on Main Street in Metuchen on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020 by borough resident John Manzo, who took a quick picture.
McCartney, 77, strolled around the borough. enjoying the spring-like day. He was seen taking pictures of the Metuchen’s downtown area.
Here’s a look at events that happened in Central Jersey from five, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago this week.
Five years ago
Feb. 25, 2020: Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a $40.9 billion budget that raised taxes on millionaires, cigarettes and guns while setting aside a record amount of money for NJ Transit ― but helped pay for that by diverting money from other accounts, moves he’d denounced as budget gimmickry.
Feb. 26: According to several reports, the book “The Good Nurse” about Charles Cullen, a former nurse who was convicted in March 2006 of 22 counts of first-degree murder and is serving eight life sentences at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, might soon be turned into a Netflix film, it was reported.
Feb. 27: It was reported PharMedium, a South Brunswick healthcare company, would close on April 20, 2020 after the federal Food and Drug Administration said it manufactured and distributed drugs intended to be sterile, such as oxytocin and morphine sulfate, that were adulterated because the drugs were made under insanitary conditions.
Feb. 29: A patient at Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel who was suspected of having the novel coronavirus was cleared after tests were performed. While test results were awaited, the patient was treated in isolation.
Feb. 29: The Rutgers Prep boys basketball team beat Watchung Hills, 71-57, winning its first Somerset County Tournament title since 1983.
March 1: In an episode called “Human Sawdust,” the show Forensic Files II, on HLN cable news channel, featured Melanie McGuire, the former Woodbridge resident convicted of killing her husband, cutting his body into pieces and discarding them inside suitcases thrown into the Chesapeake Bay.
10 years ago
Feb. 25, 2015: Gov. Chris Christie was proposing a $33.8 billion spending plan for the fiscal year starting Wednesday, July 1, 2015 that included extensive changes to public workers’ pensions and health benefits, it was reported.
Feb. 26: It was reported Robert Heary, a surgeon at Rutgers University’s teaching hospital in Newark, was its highest paid employee, earning $3.14 million.
Feb. 26: In the 2015 Greater Middlesex County girls basketball tournament final, Piscataway High School beat Monroe, 77-74, in overtime, making it Piscataway’s third straight championship.
Feb. 27: The body of missing Perth Amboy man Moises Torres, an 80-year-old with dementia and hearing loss, was found at a spot along the Middlesex Greenway behind the former Boro Hardware in Metuchen, a more than seven-mile walk.
Feb. 27: HelloFresh, a delivery service for recipe kits, opened a warehouse and storage facility at 1501B W. Blancke St. in Linden, bringing more than 100 jobs to the city, it was reported.
Feb. 28: It was reported Jared Silverstein, a senior at Hillsborough High School who participated in the Grammy in the Schools Grammy Camp, performed on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015 at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
2000
Feb. 25, 2000: Tara Cunningham, 20, was sentenced to five years in prison ― the minimum prison sentence ― for stabbing and killing her boyfriend, Christopher Jay Hayes, in their Bound Brook apartment in November 1998.
Feb. 27: A growing movement of students at Livingston College at Rutgers University had started a grassroots effort to get Rutgers University to expand its student center, it was reported.
Feb. 27: The Westfield High School boys swimming team took first and second place in the 100-yard breaststroke and added a first and third place in the 400 freestyle relay to beat Cherry Hill East, 89.5-80.5, to win the Public A state title at The College of New Jersey in Ewing.
Feb. 29: A Somerset County grand jury indicted Monique Lozada and Francisco Demoscoso, both of North Plainfield, and Manuel Carmona of Plainfield, in connection with the alleged kidnapping of Wilber A. Ramirez of North Plainfield.
Feb. 29: Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show since 1991, spoke to an audience of more than 1,800 at the State Theatre in New Brunswick as part of the “Unique Lives and Experiences Women’s Lecture Series.”
Feb. 29: The body of a man was found in New Market Pond in Piscataway by a crew of township employees who were repairing the Washington Avenue bridge. The body was later identified as Zahid Saleem, 26, of North Plainfield, who had been missing since Friday, Jan. 14, 2000.
1975
Feb. 24, 1975: The New Brunswick board of education adopted a $10,710,934 budget for 1975-76. It was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1975, they would ask the city for $8,760,312 of the total amount.
Feb. 24: Rev. Thomas Quinlan, 38, a South Amboy native, was shot and killed in a first-floor hallway of St. James Parish School in Penns Grove where he was principal. It was reported on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1975 that he was acting as a decoy in an attempt to lure the gunman out of the elementary school.
Feb. 25: In the semi-finals of the 11th annual Middlesex County Coaches Basketball Tournament, Woodbridge High School beat St. Joseph’s, 56-45, at Madison High School.
Feb. 27-March 1: “Anastasia” was presented by the Wardlaw-Hartridge Dramatic Club at the Wardlaw Country Day School campus in Edison.
Feb. 28: According to information released by the state Department of Labor and Industry, unemployment in Middlesex County rose by 1.5 percent in February 1975 to 10.3 percent.
Feb. 28: Under the guidance of second-year head coach Jerry Moore, Somerville High School set a school record for most victories in a season by beating Highland Park High, 56-53, in a basketball game.
1925
Feb. 24, 1925: Raymond H. Morris of New Brunswick was given a term of six months in the Hudson County penitentiary in the United States District Court after he entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with embezzlement. He was taken to the penitentiary to begin his sentence.
Feb. 25-26: The movie “Love’s Wilderness,” starring Corinne Griffith, was shown at Reade’s Strand Theatre in Perth Amboy.
Feb. 27: In boys basketball, South River defeated Belleville High, 25-23.
Feb. 28: Plainfield experienced some sensations of an earthquake at about 9:30 p.m., the first of such an experience in the past 40 years, or since the more severe shock of 1885.
March 2: After taking a drink of orangeade at a Perth Amboy store, Anton Berlando, 4, of Carteret, became ill immediately and died before medical aid could be secured..
Brad Wadlow is a staff writer for MyCentralJersey.com
New Jersey
Massive N.J. hospital expansion angers neighbors, prompting changes to $1B plan
Plans for a proposed $1 billion expansion to Morristown Medical Center have undergone significant changes after residents and local officials shared misgivings about the project worsening traffic, causing a public nuisance, and towering over nearby buildings, Atlantic Health officials told NJ Advance Media this week.
“We’ve made adjustments to all buildings in terms of height, we’ve made adjustments in terms of the facades, the privacy that will be offered, and patient layout,” said Robert Peake, vice president of facilities management and real estate for Atlantic Health System, during an interview on Tuesday at Morristown Medical Center. “We feel that we’ve really pushed the envelope in terms of condensing as much as we can and we’re looking forward to sharing those adjustments with the town and with the residents.”
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