Education

All Montclair public school and offices will be closed Thursday due to inclement weather, the district announced late Wednesday night. In addition, all after-school and school-based evening activities were also cancelled, interim school superintendent Barbara Pinsak said in an email to parents, caregivers and staff...

The Montclair Fund for Women has kicked off its 2018-2019 grant-making cycle and will be accepting proposals from nonprofit organizations through Feb. 16. Montclair Fund for Women’s grant-making focuses on programs that promote social and economic justice and educational advancement and achievement for women and girls of color, as well as supporting the strategic strengthening of historic black or

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair is facing the prospect of $65 million in capital repairs over the next several years, at the suggestion of the school district’s architects of record. That includes $20 million in repairs deemed to be especially critical. D...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The Montclair school district will be going ahead with an assessment of its special education program. At its Monday, Dec. 18 meeting, the board approved a resolution that lays out the guidelines for the review, and the data that the district should gather from it...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Budget planning season is under way in Montclair’s schools. At the Board of School Estimate meeting on Nov. 29, the board presented the fund balance sheet, which included numbers on revenues and expenses over the past 10 years. M...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Want to learn how to build a robot? Write a computer program? Or just want to play around with circuits? If you’re a student in the Montclair area, there’s likely a class on that for you. Coding ...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A proposed resolution to do an assessment of Montclair's special education program was among the items brought up during a long, occasionally tense board of education meeting Wednesday night. In its current form, the resolution calls for several components, including data on the number of special education students in each grade, determining how needs were cla

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news How should Montclair be teaching its students about health and sexuality? The school district is in the process of overhauling its curriculum for health and sexual education. As part of that process, the district hosted a “think tank” at the George Inness Annex Thursday night, Nov. 30. Th...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair's schools have at least $20 million in "priority" capital improvements and repairs that ought to be accomplished over the next several years, according to a report compiled by the district's architects...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The student advocate position took center stage at Monday night’s board of education meeting. And the discussion, both between board members and the public, got rather tense at times. The Montclair BOE approved the posting of the job description, following a long, animated and occasionally tense back-and-forth among board members about the need for the posit