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  • Content from the 2007-2008 school year.  This year the administration was caught up in a nationally reported "pennygate" story and also with repeated complaints from parents about bullying which cast a shadow over the school year.  A new math program was approved and some big capital improvement projects were started, but overall progress seemed stalled.

 

  • Content from the 2006-2007 school year.  This was a year in which a new administration set about implementing new plans and policies and perhaps overreached in a few areas.  The school board, meanwhile, continued in the eyes of many to go around in circles.

 

  • Content from the 2005-2006 school year.  This was a transitional year when school construction was being completed, an interim superintendent took the helm, a huge influx of new teachers came aboard, rising energy and other costs wreaked havoc, a new mix of school board members began questioning the status quo, and a new superintendent was hired after an intensive search.

 

  • Content from the 2004-2005 school year.  This was a dark year when the school district began to come apart at the seams.  Controversy over leadership, questions about standardized testing and curriculum, heavy staff politics and in-fighting, and other issues eventually led to a brain-drain of good teachers leaving the district and a superintendent who also left the district.  The final insult was a budget defeated and heavily cut by the township council.

 

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