Barbara Pinsak

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The buses that serve Renaissance Middle School are not arriving or departing on schedule, and are not following assigned routes, parents said last week. Buses were arriving at Renaissance at 9:30 a...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Last school year, about 14 percent of Montclair High School’s students were “chronically” absent from school. Charles H. Bullock Elementary students were absent 10.2 percent of time, while Glenfield Middle School absenteeism rate was 13. 5 percent. Distr...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The Montclair Board of Education welcomed Kendra Johnson as the district's new superintendent Monday night, while paying tribute to outgoing interim superintendent Barbara Pinsak. Pinsak will step down as interim superintendent on May 1, but will remain with the district in a consulting capacity as the district transitions to Johnson's leadership...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Kendra Johnson has been named Montclair’s new schools superintendent. The board voted on April 11 to retain Johnson for the position open since 2015 during a special meeting of the board of education with only four board members in attendance. Joh ...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The Montclair Board of Education officially approved the preliminary budget for submission to county officials Monday night, but not without some turbulence. The board had to take a second vote after the first vote resulted in four abstentions and three yes votes, not enough to pass the budget...

Students in Montclair walked out of school to protest gun violence, on Wednesday, March 14.

Montclair High School teens talk about their plan to walk out of school on March 14 in support of gun reform.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A pending school walkout in support of the Parkland school shooting victims and survivors was one of the most talked-about topics at Monday night's BOE meeting. Interim Superintendent Barbara Pinsak said that the district could not release any details on how the schools intended to handle a walkout, only that the district had been working closely with the poli

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The national discussion surrounding the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is also taking place in Montclair. One of the most-talked about issues is whether Montclair’s schools could follow the lead of other schools around the country and stage a student walkout. I...

Keeping our schools safe Editor’s note: This was originally written as a letter to parents from Barbara Pinsak, interim superintendent of the Montclair Public Schools: we went to sleep thinking about yet another community that met with the tragedy of a school shooting. Wat ...