Princeton voters could be asked to approve up to $10 million to fund upgrades to public school buildings this November. The new referendum could come less than two years since the last one was approved. In January of 2022, voters approved $17.5 million worth of bonds for critical repairs and new roofing for all six schools. Members of…
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The second petition to be launched in five days related to leadership at Princeton High School was posted online on Wednesday. Lisa Potter created a change.org petition calling for the immediate resignation of Princeton Superintendent of Schools Carol Kelley and the reinstatement of Princeton High School Principal Frank Chmiel. The reasons the district put Chmiel…
Embattled Princeton High School Principal Frank Chmiel has issued a statement to Planet Princeton about the events surrounding the email that went out last week announcing new interim leaders at the high school. The email sent out Friday did not mention Chmiel by name and notified parents that two assistant principals would temporarily be taking…
if the board approves the move, Foster would be the interim principal until the end of the school year.
About 100-125 parents and students attended the rally.
The Princeton Regional Education Association, the union for teachers in the school district, has issued a statement about the principal at Princeton High School. “We know that many of you have spent the weekend digesting the news about the high school leadership. The news was certainly a shock for our members at the high school….
The school board meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.
Chmiel has been the PHS principal since July of 2021.
The university will make PILOT payments to the town and schools instead.
The university will pay the school district $2.75 million a year for five years.
The national competition will be held in Washington, D.C. April 27-May 1.
More than 1,100 new housing units are being built in Princeton and are projected to add about 460 students to the public schools.
The middle school and high school communities sheltered in place from about 8:30 a.m. until about 10 a.m.
The dual language immersion program for the Princeton Public Schools is currently accepting applications for the 2023-24 academic year. Now in its eighth year, the program offers instruction in Spanish and English. Most students enter the program in kindergarten or first grade, but the program is open to all district students in grades K-5 who demonstrate the…
Incumbent school board members Deb Bronfeld, Dafna Kendal, and Susan Kantor were sworn in to serve three-year terms at the Jan. 3 reorganization meeting for the Princeton Board of Education. The board voted unanimously to select Kendal to serve as the president for the second year in a row. Betsy Baglio, the longest-serving member of…
Ballots for three districts in Princeton also went missing but allegedly have been located and are being counted.
Election results in Mercer County have not been finalized, but it appears that the three incumbents running for the school board in Princeton will all be serving another three-year term. Some votes are still being counted, but it would be almost impossible for challengers to win enough votes to pull ahead given the current gap….
