TEANECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS

'Teaneck Public Schools' are a comprehensive community public school district in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States, serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
The Teaneck Public Schools have been recognized by the New Jersey Department of Education as part of its Best practices program. The district was awarded in the 1997-98 school year for its Passport Portfolio Program ^[1],
and in the 2000-01 school year for its Early Literacy Initiative.^[2]

Contents

History

Schools

Elementary schools

High school

Defunct Schools

Administration

See also

References

External links

History

A 1982 teachers strike that lasted for 19 days was settled after a judge threated to jail striking teachers and pressured the board of education to negotiate an agreement.^[3]

Schools

Schools in the district (with school facilities and principals as listed at the district web site,^[4] school history from the Teaneck Virtual Village^[5] and 2004-05 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[6]) include the following:

Elementary schools

★ Bryant School, with 372 students in pre-K and Kindergarten: Principal - Suzanna Kaplan. Built in 1927. Named for poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant. School #6.

★ Hawthorne School with 364 students in grades 1-4: Principal - Vincent McHale. Built in 1925. Named for author Nathaniel Hawthorne. School #5.

★ Lowell School with 363 students in grades 1-4: Principal - Leslie Abrew. Built in 1935. Named for author James Russell Lowell. School #7.

★ Whittier School with 395 students in grades 1-4. Principal - Dr. Elise Bourne-Busby. Built in 1923. Named for John Greenleaf Whittier. School #4.

★ Benjamin Franklin Middle School with 638 students in grades 5-8. Principal - Barbara Pinsak. Named for founding father and inventor Benjamin Franklin.

★ Thomas Jefferson Middle School with 726 students in grades 5-8. Interim Principal - Antoine Green. Named for American president Thomas Jefferson.

★ Eugene Field School. Constructed in 1956. Used as Board of Education Central Administration Offices. School #8. Named for poet and humorist Eugene Field.

High school

★ Teaneck High School, which has an enrollment of 1,398 students in grades 9-12. Acting Principal - Angela Davis. Built in 1929.

Defunct Schools

★ Emerson Elementary School- Built in 1916. Original School #3. Named for author, essayist, and 19th century philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

★ Washington Irving school - Built in 1906. Original School #2. Named for author Washington Irving.

★ Longfellow Elementary School- Built in 1910. School #1. Named for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Administration

★ 'John F. Czeterko' - Superintendent of Schools

★ 'A. Spencer (Skip) Denham' - Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Operations

★ 'Michael J. Donow, RSBA' - Assistant Superintendent, Non-Instructional Operations; Board Secretary

See also

★ List of school districts in New Jersey

★ List of high schools in New Jersey

References

1. New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices: Passport Portfolio Program, accessed June 6, 2006.
2. New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices: Early Literacy Initiative, accessed June 6, 2006.
3. McGrath, Ellie. "Little Room to Negotiate", ''Time (Magazine)'', October 18, 1982. Accessed June 4, [2007]]. "There were a record 242 strikes in the 1979-80 school year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and few seem likely to continue for long. A 19-day strike ended in Teaneck, N.J., last week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups of teachers during the day. When an intransigent board of education failed to produce a quorum for a crucial bargaining session, the judge pressured board members to negotiate with the union. The final three-year settlement for the teachers represents yearly pay increases of from 7.5% to 9.7%."
4. Teaneck Public Schools
5. Teaneck Virtual Village - History of Teaneck Public Schools
6. National Center for Education Statistics data for the Teaneck Public Schools

External links

★ Teaneck Public Schools

★ Teaneck Virtual Village - History of Teaneck Public Schools

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★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Teaneck Public Schools