SCHOOLS

Sky Blue FC stretching long for a playoff berth
Danny Breslauer
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Defending Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) champion Sky Blue FC has continued to put forth solid soccer in Piscataway during the 2010 summer campaign. Recently-promoted head coach Rick Stainton believes his team’s late-season adjustments have led to a more exciting brand of soccer.

Gustatory greenies make good on garden goals
Leigh Davis
Friday, June 18, 2010

It may have seemed a long time coming to some, but the "Sprout Spot" at Irving Primary School, the "Lettuce Grow" garden at Bartle Elementary, and the Highland Park Middle & High School's "Garden of Eatin'" are in full swing. Teachers, students and the community are enjoying the fruits (or veggies!) of their labor.

At the middle school/high school garden, Dara Botvinick often holds class surrounded by the lettuce, spinach, peas, beans, nasturtium, and tomato and squash plants. "I really enjoy the impact of the garden on the students,” says Botvinick.

Whole foods a rare sight on school lunch tray
Leigh Davis
Monday, June 21, 2010

Time was, school lunches featured “Salisbury steak” and mashed potatoes, with a side of corn as a vegetable. You could mash it all together into what comic Patton Oswalt calls a failure pile in a sadness bowl, washed down with strawberry milk and chased with a bright green mint chocolate chip ice cream cone. Yep, those were the days.

Board president's tirade was an embarrassment
Letters to the Editor
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
To the editor:
At the June 21st Highland Park High School graduation, Board of Education member Wendy Saiff delivered a completely inappropriate, politically-driven diatribe, replete with specious and demonstrably false assertions, and even some Sarah Palin-esque mispronunciations. I could go through it line by line and point out the many falsehoods and internal inconsistencies. But that would be too easy.

And it would miss the point.
Governor cuts leave HP schools scrambling
"SPEAKER POWER" - Guest Column
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
One slide said it all.

In the midst of a presentation on the 2010-11 school budget late in March, a simple line graph of recent years’ state aid was a jarring visual representation of the crisis now facing Highland Park schools. The 28% drop served as striking evidence of why the Board of Education will be asking residents to agree to a 3.93% tax levy, just tenths of a percentage away from the 4% cap.

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