Story writing becomes a shared journey
Second-graders help kindergartners develop writing skills
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent
      HOLMDEL - Second-graders at the Village School are actively teaching students enrolled in Keyport Central School's kindergarten classes how to write stories. Teachers Karen Bennett and Jaime Panzella brought their secondgrade students to the Keyport Central School on Jan.
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Laptops, Smart Boards in use at middle schools
Board of Ed. to look at corporate sponsors as source of funds
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer
      MIDDLETOWN - Hot pink highlighter marked the changes to the Board of Education's Strategic Plan in the update that was read at the Jan. 17 meeting by interim Superintendent Karen Bilbao.
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Lawmakers pass new school funding formula
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer
      Lawmakers in the state Senate and GeneralAssembly narrowly passed a bill that would radically alter the way that state aid is apportioned to local school districts, after a tooth-and-nail struggle that, as one assemblyman observed, fell mostly along geographic lines.
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