Get to know the candidates and the plans they have for the future of education in Montclair. Our series continues with Melanie Deysher.
Melanie Deysher
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‘Tuck Everlasting’ draws more than 600 guests to Glenfield Middle School
Students have been rehearsing and preparing for the show since September.
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Allison Silverstein and Crystal Hopkins to lead Montclair Board of Education
Board members Yvonne W. Bouknight, Brian Fleischer and Monk Inyang sworn in.
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Montclair school board eliminates board member comment period
Board president designated to make comments on behalf of all members.
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Changes made to Montclair school district’s special education program
Efforts address audit’s findings, aim to better consistency across schools and communication.
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Vote Montclair founder says he’s sorry for writing the piece that has members quitting
By LOUIS C. HOCHMAN hochman@montclairlocal.news The founder of Vote Montclair said in a message to his mailing list Friday he’d “let down friends and collaborators” when he wrote a piece […]
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Vote Montclair members quit after founder criticizes school unions for protecting seniority
The two just-elected Board of Education members who Vote Montclair had backed say group founder Erik D’Amato doesn’t speak for them “nor anyone else who was involved with the now defunct Vote Montclair.”
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Turnout was low. Interest was high. What to learn from Montclair’s first (and off-cycle) school board election
What a quickly run race with a crowded field, held in March, does and doesn’t tell us
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Dunn, Deysher make history, handily winning Montclair’s first-ever Board of Education election
It was an election marked by high interest — with nine candidates seeking seats and voters picking board members directly for the first time in Montclair’s history — but low turnout.
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Montclair BOE candidates’ answers: Infrastructure, communication, learning loss
The nine candidates answered six questions sent by Montclair Local.
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The differing priorities for Montclair Board of Education candidates
But they agree on the importance of two topics — infrastructure and special education.
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Dunn, Deysher have been doing their homework; elect them to Montclair school board (Letter to the editor)
Brian Fleischer says both have reached out to him, a former Montclair schools business administrator, to deepen their understanding.
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A vote for Melanie Deysher is a vote for literacy (Letter to the editor)
Jaime Bedrin says Deysher was instrumental in pushing Montclair Public Schools to train teachers in the Orton Gillingham method.
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9 candidates seeking 2 seats on Montclair School board come before the public
League of Women voters forum is first of multiple events with the candidates this month.