The following is the Board Agenda for the August 2012 Hoboken Board of Education Meeting.
There are a number of important aspects of this meeting including:
* The transfer of the Connors principal (Ms. Laurinda Pererira) to Calabro School after 2 lackluster years as the Connors principal (CAPA report, low test scores, school has failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, etc...). This is the beginning of Ms. Pererira's final year before a decision needs to made about tenure for her as principal. She started in the district in September of 2010. All the best to her as she takes over the highest performing school in the Hoboken School District which for years had been under the effective leadership of Ms. Palumbo who retired over the summer.
* The Board of Education intends to hire yet another veteran of the Newark Public School District with the hiring of Gerald Fitzhugh II as principal of Connors School. There has been a number of hires from Newark, Keyport, and Roselle of late. Mr. Fitzhugh II has a few years of experience as a principal at the Chancellor Avenue School at Grade 3-8 Public School in Newark, NJ. The Newark School District, like the Hoboken School District, is a district in need of improvement as designated by the New Jersey Department of Education. Good luck to Mr. Fitzhugh.
* Ms. Robin Piccapietra will be named Interim Principal of Hoboken High School
* Mr. Ivan Ramos will be named Acting Assistant Principal of Hoboken High School
Why these 2 excellent veteran Hoboken School District employees and administrators are being named to temporary positions ("Interim" and "Acting") is both surprising and disappointing. Best of luck to the two of them as they lead Hoboken High School for at least part of this upcoming school year.
It is worth noting that Hoboken High School will now have had 5 different principals or interim principals within the last 5 years.
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