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Hasbrouck Heights Class Size

Monday, January 28, 2013

Heights District Does Away with Pre-K to Resolve Class Size Woes

School district plans to use the class space to reduce class size of other grades at elementary schools.

Increased enrollment in the Hasbrouck Heights school district has forced the Board of Education to eliminate its pre-K program as of September in order to free up classrooms at both elementary schools to resolve class size issues. Plans are not set in stone yet, according to Dina Messery, business administrator who says the district will have to see if the budget for the coming school year will support it. It is also too soon to say how this will affect staff members, she said. Currently pre-K is conducted at both Euclid and Lincoln schools. Previously the program had only been conducted at Lincoln School until this past year when it was expanded to Euclid. The district hopes to be able to reduce class size for kindergarten and first and …

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Hasbrouck Heights Board of Education, Euclid Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, and 3 more ›

Crystal Brown

11:23 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013

Englewood is not the not the only place where residents need to unite and stand for the children!   more ›

Friday, September 21, 2012

Enrollment Increases Lead to More Class Size Concerns

Hasbrouck Heights school district Superintendent discusses ways the Board of Education and administration will address the situation.

Hasbrouck Heights school district has experienced another recent boost in enrollment which is leading to increased concerns for parents and school officials about class size. Mark Porto, superintendent, told parents at the Board of Education meeting Thursday, enrollment went up 5 percent in the past 9 months. An additional 110 students are in the district, 50 of those additional students are in the middle school/high school alone, he said. Porto said since he came to the district in 2010, enrollment has gone from 1550 student to the current enrollment of 1890, up 340 students, or 22 percent. Porto said he and the Board of Education trustees are “seriously discussing options that will allow us to have smaller class sizes in the long term by…

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Hasbrouck Heights Board of Education, Hasbrouck Heights Middle and High School, Lincoln Elementary School, and 1 more ›

Henry Hahn

11:16 am on Monday, October 1, 2012

To say, "When I was a child, xyz" is not relevant. When I was a child, seatbelts were not mandated, and kids hung out in the trunks of station wagons. When I was a child a great many other things were very different including instructional strategy and the type of child we are working with today. We learn from our mistakes and build for a better future. To quote Isaac Newton, "If I have seen …   more ›

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