Sunday, August 5, 2012
If you wish to express yourself on any issue, send a Letter to the Editor to Patch at natalie.davis@patch.com.
Having attended the Parsippany Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, I want to offer some perspective on the field renovation issue. All due respect to this news outlet—I was a little taken aback with how this headline, "Fields Plan Failure Could Be Felt in Classroom," read in my email inbox on Friday, coupled with the context of the article. It's a big lesson in how something is presented in the press. What I think both Patch and Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz were trying to convey is that if we’re going to continue to have sports in Parsippany and compete at the level of comparable school systems, something is going to have to be done eventually with these facilities. Addressing [the renovations] as a full package today…
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The district says the driver made a stop at the post office and left two students on board.
A Parsippany school district bus driver has been suspended without pay for leaving two students alone on the bus while running an errand on July 2, according to a PTHSD news release. According to the district, the driver, who was not identified, was en route to Parsippany schools' Wide World of Summer program and decided to make a stop at the Mt. Tabor post office to pick up school-related mail. "Although the driver was only in the post office for a few minutes, two students were left on the bus unattended," the release said. "The students were unharmed and delivered safely to school. "As soon as the incident was brought to the administration’s attention, the district conducted an initial inquiry and suspended the driver, without pay, …
Friday, April 20, 2012
However, BOE opts not to reveal letter's contents—yet.
The much-debated Fields of Dreams high school turf field proposal could be a step closer to resolution. At Thursday evening's Parsippany Board of Education meeting, President Frank Calabria announced the state Department of Education's opinion of the plan finally arrived in the form of a letter at the end of the business day. As to whether the state gives the controversial project a yea or nay, Calabria woud not say. If the state's answer is yes, and the school board agrees, the next move would belong to the Township Council, whose members have already stated their support for the plan to use Open Space Trust Fund dollars to pay for the installation of artificial turf fields and other athletic improvements at Parsippany High School and …
Natalie Davis
10:50 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
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