Education

GRADUATION SPEAKERS – Valedictorian Ansh Parikh speaks to his classmates as Salutatorian Semra Suslu looks on during the CJCP graduation ceremony on June 18. Central Jersey College Preps’ Class of 2025 was told to be “leaders with integrity” at its graduation ceremony on June 18 at the Mettlers Road campus. The graduates heard from Jeannine LaRue, who during her career …

POET LAUREATE – Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, reads from her book at the June 10 publishing party. Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, was all smiles June 10 in the high school library. Dumbuya, a Senior, welcomed guests to the publishing party of her book, “A Bouquet of Verses,” an anthology of poems written …

Central Jersey College Prep (CJCP) announced that for the fifteenth straight school year, 100 percent of its senior class will be graduating on time this Spring and that every member of the Class of ‘25 has also been accepted to a college or university next fall, continuing an unprecedented senior class streak for CJCP which began in 2011.   This …

The Franklin High School Class of 2025’s Salutatorian and Valedictorian were named June 6 at the annual Senior Awards Night ceremony. During the evening, thousands of dollars in scholarships were announced, as were the winners of various academic honors. The Class Salutatorian is Jiya Patel, and the Class Valedictorian is Aaryan Patel. Download the lists of awards and scholarship winners …

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Schiro Withanachchi, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Rutgers University – Camden, speaks to the TEECS Class of 2025 at their June 5 graduation. The world needs scientists, but it also needs leaders who care, the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School Class of 2025 was told at its graduation ceremony on June 5. Speaking to the …

TALKING FINANCES – Parents listen to strategies to affording college costs during the College STEADY program at Sampson G. Smith school on June 3. An inaugural college exposure fair drew about 200 middle school students and their parents to Franklin Middle School – Sampson G. Smith campus on June 3. The fair, called College R.E.A.D.Y., was designed by school administration …

Franklin High School student Hayagreev Shankar Karthik is one of more than 2,900 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities, announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Shankar Karthik’s scholarship was financed by Rutgers University, where physics is the planned course of study. Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalistsin …

Cecily Cuadra of Somerset, New Jersey, was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Kean University. Cuadra is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination …

The 5th Annual “Tee Up Fore Teachers” Golf Outing, a fundraiser for the Franklin Township Warrior Education Foundation, is set for June 30 at  the Heron Glen Golf Course in Ringoes.The event, hosted by SSP Architects and Balken Risk Management, is more than just a day of golf; it’s a celebration of educators and an opportunity to support creative, impactful teaching …

 On Saturday, April 5, East Stroudsburg University welcomed 40 gifted students from local and regional school districts to the Saturday Gifted Institute. ESU students taking Instructional Planning in Special Education (SPED 215) created a day of hands-on learning for elementary and middle school aged children (grades 2-8.) Belle Hnasko, from Somerset, is a student in the class. This semester, the …