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The Ocean City Board of Education took time to recognize the accomplishments of a student artist and winter sports teams on Wednesday, and here are five other things that might be of interest:
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The Ocean City Board of Education recognizes achievements of girls' basketball and swimming teams.
Superintendent of Schools Kathleen Taylor and the Ocean City Board of Education took time before Wednesday's public meeting to recognize academic and athletic achievers. Ocean City Intermediate School seventh-grader Juliet Evangelista finished in third place among more than 200 entrants in the Cape May County Earth Day Logo Contest. The Ocean City High School girls' swimming team captured the Cape-Atlantic League National Division title for the second straight year and broke 10 individual and relay school records in the process. Coach Katie Merz recognized the following individuals: Maddie Brady, Erin Myers, Gabby Breazeale, Lauren Bowersock, Ashlyn Roze, Devon Grisbaum, Noel Styer, Casey Merrill and Mel Wilezol. The Ocean City High School…
9:28 am on Thursday, April 25, 2013
I'm a school board member and I care about all students K-12. If you would like to change your opion about how the school board cares or doesen't there is an election coming up and we could use your help or not. Lloyd more ›
The Ocean City Board of Education approves a 2013-14 budget for the district.
For the second year in a row, the Ocean City Board of Education approved a budget with no increase to Ocean City taxpayers. The board on Wednesday voted to finalize a levy to Ocean City taxpayers of $21,640,721 for the 2013-14 fiscal year — the exact same figure as in the 2012-13 budget and the the 2011-12 budget. __________ See detailed presentation on the new budget. __________ Because the budget falls under the 2 percent cap on tax levy increases, it is not subject to voter approval. But while Ocean City taxpayers, on average, will pay exactly the same amount in taxes next year under the proposed budget, not all property owners will see the same tax bills. Because the value of Ocean City's tax base (combined real estate values) has …
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2:13 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
More info about the present student numbers would have helped the reader with a comparison of costs gained or lost. Maybe a corollary article is in order here. more ›
An Ocean City High School math teacher experiments with a 'flipped classroom.'
Students and former students worldwide (except, we suppose, for the brainiest few) know the helpless feeling well: math homework due but no clue how to get it done. An Ocean City High School mathematics teacher is experimenting with a new teaching model. Using the multimedia capability of the Internet, Scot Rainear is recording traditional lessons for students to view at home. That opens classroom time for students to solve homework problems in class — where he and peers can help students who get stuck on any aspect of a problem. Rainear, who teaches algebra and calculus classes at the high school, made a presentation last month to the Ocean City Board of Education on what he calls the "flipped classroom." While the flipped classroom is …
4:54 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
Peaches and "not a fan" (of peaches) - the cartoon is indisputably racist - it is a classic example of reverse racism - inverted actually, but that term has not made it into the popular venacular. Peaches - your defense is nothing more than the typical racist's defense "some of my best friends are..." Except that you stretch the weak defense to the breaking point (after all, you did not marry … more ›
The district is planning for significant capital improvements and is sharing information with the public.
Ocean City school officials met with the public Tuesday to share information about school facility projects in the works. The presentation, held at the Ocean City Free Public Library, was the first of what the district hopes will be many more public forums to create awareness of school issues, according to Ray Clark, chairman of the Ocean City Board of Education's Public Relations Committee. With a new Ocean City High School completed in 2004 and a major renovation of the Ocean City Intermediate School completed in 2010, the school district will turn its attention to the last remaining school, Ocean City Primary School, which has not received any major upgrade since it was built in the 1970s. The school needs a new roof, heating and …
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5:42 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
your information isay off. less than 30% of the students in the high school are from ocean city. with 166 school choice students next year that % will go even lower more ›
The Ocean City School District will sponsor a public presentation on facility issues at 10 a.m. Tuesday (March 5).
Superstorm Sandy was only the most recent of the floods to hit the Bill and Nancy Hughes Performing Arts Center at Ocean City High School. The school auditorium — which opened with the reconstructed high school in September 2004 — has flooded three times before. And while the school district pursues legal action against the contractor for what it calls faulty construction, the district is moving ahead with a plan to fix the problem and is budgeting $750,000 to do so. The auditorium project and other facility plans will be part of a public presentation at 10 a.m. today (Tuesday, March 5) at the Ocean City Free Public Library. The public is invited, and members of the Ocean City Board of Education and district administration will be there to…
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The district can add $180,000 to its budget and keep the tax levy unchanged.
Already budgeting for no local tax increase for the second consecutive year, the Ocean City School District learned last week that it will receive extra money from the state for the next fiscal year. Gov. Chris Christie's administration announced on Thursday that Ocean City will receive an additional $1.5 million in state aid for the next school year, an 80 percent increase over what it received last year. The Christie administration touted its "continued commitment for supporting public education in Cape May County and across New Jersey" in a news release and said the state aid figures represent the largest appropriation of K-12 education dollars in the state’s history. Most of the increase comes in the form of tuition reimbursements for…
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6:11 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
since the 2013-14 ocean city school district was fully funded before receiving the additional $179,857 from the state, this money should be used as tax relief for ocean city tax payers. although the amout of money asked from the taxpayers is exactly the same next year as it is this year, it would appear that there will not be a school district tax increase, but this is FALSE! since the assessed … more ›
The Ocean City School District will ask local taxpayers for the same amount as in the last two budgets.
For the second year in a row, the Ocean City School District is proposing a budget with no increase to Ocean City taxpayers. Business Administrator Tom Grossi presented a preliminary budget to the Ocean City Board of Education on Wednesday night that calls for a local tax levy of $21,640,721 for the 2013-14 fiscal year — the same figure as in the 2012-13 budget and the the 2011-12 budget. (See attached PDF for a summary of the 2013-14 revenue budget.) The district must submit a full budget to the county by March 7. A public hearing on the final budget is scheduled for March 27. Any school budget that falls under the 2 percent cap on the tax levy is no longer subject to voter approval. While Ocean City taxpayers, on average, will pay …
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3:18 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
I will ask this question. The state allows $ 12,330 for each choice school student. Last year I believed it cost around $ 16,500 to educate a student in our school district. Who makes up the difference for the cost ? I have been told we are taking on choice students so that we don't have to lay off teachers and cut programs. This was to be our Ocean City HS not a state available school. The cost … more ›
The district is preparing students for this year's tests in the spring.
With four to five days of state standardized testing scheduled for April and May, the Ocean City Board of Education paused Wednesday to recognize students who received perfect scores on last year's New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) tests. The NJ ASK tests are long and extensive assessments of language arts and math given to all New Jersey students in grades 3 to 8. Students in grades 4 and 8 are also tested in science. The following students received perfect scores on at least one section of the NJ ASK. The majority were perfect in math—with a small number of fourth- and eighth-graders acing science. Achieving a perfect score in language arts is generally considered harder because of subjective writing portions of the …
The school board gets its first glimpse of draft budgets for the three Ocean City schools.
The Ocean City School District administration introduced a draft budget Wednesday that shows only small increases in the operating budget for the three Ocean City schools: 0.5 percent for Ocean City High School and Ocean City Intermediate School and 1.5 percent for Ocean City Primary School. The budgets for the three school buildings and all school departments were summarized for the Ocean City Board of Education, which will approve a final budget for the 2013-14 school year by the end of March. The budgets ($619,439 for the high school, $187,677 for the intermediate school and $125,930 for the primary school) do not include salaries and benefits, which made up about 81 percent of Ocean City's $38.7 million operating budget in 2012-13, …
10:19 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
The Choice students add money to the schools as long as we do not have to add teachers. These students fill empty seats in classrooms without adding to the cost.This seems to help all the taxpayers in the district. more ›
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10:01 am on Friday, April 26, 2013
the psat is supposed to be a practice test for the sat's, but because students are now able to pick and choose which individual scores they want to submit to colleges, they now take the sat's as often as they want. they are now using the actual sat as practice, rather than needing the psat any more. the state in all it's infinite wisdom has decided to use participation in the psat's as part of … more ›