Sunday, December 9, 2012
Five Brick schools, including Brick Township High School, had lead levels in the drinking water that exceeded state guidelines, the schools said.
Five Brick Township schools had lead levels in drinking water that exceeded state guidelines, the district said in a statement issued late Friday afternoon. Those schools included: The district said it is shutting off all sources of drinking water at those five schools as a precaution. Preliminary findings do not suggest an immediate health hazard to the building occupants, the district said. "We are actively planning for the temporary provision of alternate water sources (i.e. bottled water) until such time as the drinking water is fully evaluated and repairs and/or treatment are completed," the district said in its statement. "We have distributed bottled water to each of the schools, nurses’ offices and other critical areas of the …
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Brick Township High School
346 Chambersbridge Rd, Brick, NJ
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Drum Point Road Elementary School
41 Drum Point Rd, Brick, NJ
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Lake Riviera Middle School
171 Beaverson Blvd, Brick, NJ
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Emma Havens Young Elementary School
43 Drum Point Rd, Brick, NJ
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Brick is busing 240 students displaced from Hurricane Sandy to school from neighboring towns daily to bring "normalcy" back to their lives.
Hurricane Sandy created a lot of turmoil since the end of October with wrecked homes, but Brick has been trying to help 240 children displaced by the storm by transporting them back to their schools, Superintendent Walter Uszenski said on Friday. "The Board (of Education) and I thought it was extremely important to get some normalcy back to these children's lives," Uszenski said. "We were pretty much in unanimous agreement. It was too important to the kids. "This is where their friends are. This is where they are educated. This is where they play sports," Uszenski said. The school has been transporting them at a "minimal" cost, since the school district owns its buses and has only fuel and time to cover, Uszenski said. This is where …
A demographer's report is expected early spring to aid Brick Board of Education's choice on full-day kindergarten.
The Board of Education is expecting a report from a demographer by early spring to make a decision about full-day kindergarten for Brick, Superintendent Dr. Walter Uszenski said on Friday. "We know the research says it is great to start kids at an earlier age and we are looking at the possibility in September," Uszenski said about full-day kindergarten. "We are hoping the demographer report will be availabe by early spring and we can make educated decisions about what we can and can’t do," Uszenski said. The main factors driving this will be financial costs and classroom space availability, he said. The report would only serve to help make recommendations to the school board, examine all the options and get the community's input, he said. …
Thursday, August 9, 2012
High school student reading selections offered by township branch of county library
Brick Township high school students seeking some book-based and educational diversion during the remaining weeks of summer vacation would do well to check out the suggested reading list from the Brick Township branch of the Ocean County library. The list offers selections categorized by genre and student grade level, so that each student is geared towards material suitable for their individual level and grade curriculum. Freshmen selections include classics such as “Where The Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls, while senior selections include “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. The lists are extensive, and span from classic literature to contemporary authors delivering works geared towards the high school-aged audience. How many of these books …
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Brick Branch - Ocean County Library
301 Chambersbridge Rd, Brick, NJ
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The fifth-grade classes participated in a worldwide attempt to break the Guinness World Records mark for people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period
The students bounced on their toes and jogged in place, waiting eagerly for the command: "OK, jump!" And at 10:14 a.m. Wednesday, 146 fifth-graders at Veterans Memorial Elementary School began jumping ... as in jumping jacks, part of an effort to break the Guinness World Record for the number of people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. The current mark is 20,425, according to the Guinness records website. The world record attempt, called "Let's Jump!," is part of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative, which targets childhood obesity, and began at 3 p.m. on Tuesday with an event at the White House led by Mrs. Obama. The event at Veterans Memorial Elementary School was the idea of Ocean Medical Center and the Meridian …
Mike
11:45 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Yet another reason, as if anyone needed it, to leave NJ. more ›