Dara Kurlander, the suspended Avenel Street School principal, has filed suit against OFAC and the anonymous sources who fingered her in a cheating scandal.
Dara Kurlander, the Avenel Street School principal who was suspended on charges of helping children cheat on standardized tests, has filed a lawsuit against the NJ's Department of Education's investigative unit and two of the anonymous sources who testified against her. In the lawsuit, filed in Middlesex County, Kurlander's attorneys charge that the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance (OFAC) "falsely taint[ed] her reputation as an educator," according to a report in the Star-Ledger. In addition to OFAC, Kurlander's attorney Lisa Krenkel is suing the Director of Investigations Thomas Martin and Director Robert Cicchino, and two anonymous sources who reported to OFAC Kurlander's alleged desk-tapping trick that alerted students to…
The NJ DOT made good on its promise, in time for the first day of school in Woodbridge.
The bagged pedestrian crossing signals at Avenel Street and Route 1 are bagged no longer. The long-awaited pedestrian crossing lights were on and operational in time for the opening of school in Woodbridge. That was good news for parents of children returning to Avenel Street School, right down the street from the major highway crossing. The new NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) lights are a double bonus for drivers: they include a numerical countdown signal, a warning for when the light is going to change. The Avenel St./Route 1 intersection is the granddaddy of Woodbridge's four red light camera intersections. The pedestrian countdown clock on the signal can clearly be seen by Route 1 drivers, giving them a head's up when the …
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Two principals and three teachers from Ross Street and Avenel Street Schools were suspended following Monday's Board of Education meeting.
The fallout of the cheating scandal at a number of Woodbridge schools began to hit Monday night, as three teachers and two principals were suspended in the wake of the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance’s (OFAC) initial report on cheating at Avenel Street School #4/5 and Ross Street School #11. Third grade teachers John Radzik and Lisa Savillo, both of Avenel Street School, and Stephanie Klecan, who taught at the same school in 2010-’11, as well as Avenel Street School Principal Dara Kurlander and former Ross Street School Principal Sharon Strack were each suspended with pay following a closed session at Monday’s Board of Education meeting at Oak Ridge Heights School #21 in Colonia. Klecan most recently taught at Mawbey …
NotInKansasAnymore
9:08 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
LOL... Perhaps a friend went with her and tapped her the right answers! more ›