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| New Art in Hoboken - Michelle Hoogveld & Team |
1) Brandt Elementary is the most segregated school in the Hoboken School District. It has the highest percentage of white students and the lowest percentage of hispanic and black students. In addition, it is also the School with the lowest percentage of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch.
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/10/brandt-elementary-school-most.html
2) Most recent pre-pandemic state administered test scores indicate only 4 out of 10 high school students are reading at grade level and less than 1 out of 10 high school students are doing mathematics at grade level. Moreover, 9% are doing geometry at grade level and 3% are doing Algebra at grade level.
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/10/latest-njdoe-data-4-out-of-10-students.html
3) The Hoboken School District received $5,806,503 in American Rescue Plan Emergency Relief Funds. Has there been a public accounting of how these funds were utilized? How these funds were used to make up for the loss of learning during the pandemic? Is there data on the success/failure of these funds?
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/08/hoboken-school-district-american-rescue.html
4) Based on district self reported data, in 2021-22 Hoboken High School resident enrollment was only 344 students.
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/05/2021-22-hoboken-high-school-resident.html
5) Estimated cost per student based on 2022-23 Hoboken District Preliminary Budget:
Charters: $14,910
Preschool: $20,670
K-12 Hoboken traditional Public Schools: $27,275
Backup https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/03/per-pupil-cost-estimates-for-hoboken.html
6) Total Hoboken District enrollment between October 15, 2020 and October 15, 2021 was down 2.3%
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2022/03/skyrocketing-enrollment-in-hoboken.html
7) In 2019 the Hoboken Board of Education’s current super majority opposed Elysian’s expansion of a couple of dozen students to the NJDOE. Less than 12 months later, the same Board and Superintendent talk about “explosive enrollment gains”
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2021/12/test-elysian.html
8) In the most recent contract of the superintendent (2021) there are listed 3 “quantitative” and 2 “qualitative” areas for merit increases. Each quantitative area is worth up to 3.33% and each “qualitative” area is worth 2.5% for a total of potentially 15% of the entire salary. However, there is no articulation or details as to what these merit criteria or areas are.
9) The Hoboken Board of Education severely misprojected the 2021-22 enrollment by 1500% costing taxpayers over $3.7 million dollars as part of a 10% local tax levy hike during the heart of the recession and pandemic.
Backup: https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2021/05/hoboken-board-of-education-grossly.html
https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2020/05/hoboken-board-of-education-unanimously.html
10) In 2012 the Hoboken Board of Education voted to accept the offer on the NJDOE to not have a public election on the Board of Education budget if the next years budget was to be a 2% increase of less.
The result has been the taxpayers and citizens of Hoboken have not voted on a school budget in over a decade.
The result has been an incentive by the Hoboken Board of Education to keep the budget at a 2% increase or less resulting in over a decade of needed money for maintenance of schools resulting in appealing to the pubic for the poor state of the school buildings.
https://hobokencurriculumproject.blogspot.com/2016/05/school-budgets-approved-in-most-nj.html
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