School board candidates Joel Ramirez, Kenneth Simmons, Jonathan Hodges are leading the pack of eight candidates as unofficial vote tallies come in.
Paterson school board candidates field questions from young people
Five of the nine candidates running for the three available school board seats took questions from young people at the Paterson Youth Council forum on Wednesday night. Students, many of them from John F. Kennedy High School and the Passaic County Technical Institute, asked the school board hopefuls whether they agreed or disagreed with cuts…
Paterson school board candidates talk zero tolerance for bullying, state underfunding
Four of the nine candidate running for three available school board seats discussed zero tolerance for bullying, state underfunding, and the need for more drug abuse counselors at a forum hosted by the Paterson Education Fund inside the John F. Kennedy High School television studio on Monday evening.
Ex-school board member decries Paterson candidates’ failure to attend debates
I am very concerned about what appears to be an utter lack of sincerity from several school board candidates. It’s bad enough that we have only had 2 debates with the election just weeks away. But to have a group of candidates who seem not the least bit interested in attending any debates at all,…
Paterson school board candidates face off in first forum
Five out of the nine men and women running for three obtainable school board seats faced off in a debate at St. Luke Church. Some of the issues that dominated the forum, hosted by the city’s chapter of the NAACP, were quality of education, charter schools, and local control.
9 candidates running for 3 Paterson school board seats
Nine people are running to fill three seats in Paterson’s school board race scheduled for November, the Passaic County Clerk’s Office said on Monday afternoon.