Students, parents, teachers advocate for nonrenewed staff, funding from township.
Hillside School
Montclair bike bus embarks on its inaugural ride
The parent-led effort includes routes to every elementary school.
Hillside School failed to meet bullying requirements for 2021-2022 school year
Buzz Aldrin met standard, but score dropped significantly from previous year.
Drums of Thunder director offered contract for 2022-23 school year, a month after receiving nonrenewal notice
Christopher Golinski began teaching in Montclair in 2019, assuming his position with Drums of Thunder at the same time.
Parents, students worry Montclair schools are gutting the arts
But district officials say programming will not be affected by staff cuts.
Two Montclair schools fail to meet bullying requirements, according to self-assessments
Low scores result of remote learning and lacking personnel, anti-bullying coordinator says.
Online concert to raise funds for Ida recovery at Hillside School
Local musician Jason Didner hopes to cover cost of gymnastics mats.
Montclair schools reaffirm: We’ll open Thursday after Ida damage
Montclair school officials say despite damage to multiple buildings in Ida, students will return today, Sept. 9, for full, five-day-a-week, in-person instruction for the first time since the start of […]
History & Heritage: Recalling First Night
From 1988 through 2011, Montclairians celebrated First Night with story, song, dance, and fireworks, recalls Mike Farrelly in the latest ‘History and Heritage.’
PHOTOS: Montclair goes to the polls
In Montclair, the League of Women’s Voters’ message of “vote early” may have worked as most poll workers reported low numbers at polling places on Election Day.
What options do Montclair voters have for casting ballots?
Voters can also deposit their ballots in the drop box outside of town hall or mail them in through the post office. Montclair’s drop box is monitored by a surveillance camera 24/7. Township communications officer Katya Wowk said the drop box ballots are collected once a day.
Renaissance principal replaced for showing video deemed racist at convocation
Major Jennings, vice principal at Buzz Aldrin Middle School, was named as Renaissance acting principal to replace Putrino during the Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Mom says Montclair School District failed her daughter who was allegedly bullied for over a year
The notion of tort claim states the girl, now 13 years old, was targeted by students for “her identifying characteristics, skin tone, race and hair texture, among other things.”
Ife Joseph invents an app for social justice
Ife Joseph, a 10-year-old rising fifth-grader at Hillside School, has invented an app titled “Mental Health for Social Justice,” for the MIT Inventor Hackathon.