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How Early Can I Start Music Lessons ?
How Early Can I Start Music Lessons for my son or daughter? As a music teacher, I hear this question quite often. I usually answer with a series of other questions. Yea, I know that’s not what [...]
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Photo gallery: Summer theater program at Camden Catholic High School
Stage presence, vocal production, projection, and choreography are just some of the skills that the children and teens at Camden Catholic High School's Summer Theater Program have been working on this season.
THE CAMP
"The kids get to pick the skills that they want to focus on. It [...]
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Cherry Hill session a prelude to superintendent hiring process
The school board tonight will consider criteria for a search to replace the district's departing superintendent, David Campbell.
Campbell has advised the board he will retire at the end of the upcoming school year. Campbell's original four-year contract was extended last November for an additional year, to June 30, 2011.
President Seth [...]
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Activity fees in schools criticized
A South Jersey legislator is speaking out against a budget-stretching tactic that's being used by a growing number of school districts -- student activity fees.
"These are tax increases in another form," asserts Assemblyman John Burzichelli, D-Gloucester, who has sought in the past to sharply restrict such fees. "If the public school feel these programs [...]
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School gets acting principal
A middle-school administrator has been named acting principal of a township elementary school.
Shilpa Dalal will oversee Clara Barton Elementary School during the leave of absences of Barton's current principal, Farrah Mahan. Mahan's leave is to extend from August until June 30, 2011, the district said.
Dalal joined the Cherry Hill district in 2002 as [...]
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Cherry Hill student fee would be universal
A proposed fee to defray the cost of extracurricular programs is expected to apply to almost all middle- and high-school students here, even if they don't participate in after-school activities.
School board members on Tuesday night revised a draft policy for the fee, specifying it should apply to "every" student -- "irrespective of whether or [...]
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Cherry Hill student fee in the works
The school board tonight is to consider a proposed general fee for students in grades six through 12.
The fee is meant to help fund co-curricular activities. It was suggested after budget cuts threatened to end several sports activities and other secondary clubs.
For 2010-11, the fee would be $90 per high school student and [...]
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Newsweek honors 3 S.J. high schools
Three South Jersey schools are included in Newsweek magazine's list of top high schools in the nation.
Haddonfield High School and both Cherry Hill High School West and East appear on the magazine's list of America's Best High Schools 2010, now available on Newsweek's website.
The list includes 1,623 high schools across the country and [...]
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Photo gallery: Cherry Hill East graduation
Check out the photo gallery of Cherry Hill East's graduation at: Cherry Hill East Graduation | Courier-Post.
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Special guests bring book to life in Cherry Hill
Preschoolers at Barclay Early Childhood Center took a trip around the world Wednesday -- figuratively speaking -- as they were read a special book by its author and illustrators and then got to watch the five-minute DVD version.
"In My Own World," about the journeys of youthful imagination, has already been [...]
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Photo gallery: Cherry Hill West Graduation
Check out the photo gallery of Cherry Hill High School West's graduation at: Cherry Hill West Graduation | Courier-Post.
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91 school leaders’ salaries top $200K; Cherry Hill official is highest paid
The number of New Jersey public school administrators paid $200,000 or more increased nearly eightfold in the past five years, according to new payroll numbers released by the state Department of Education.
As of October, 91 administrators were in the $200,000 club -- all higher than the governor's salary of $175,000. The number is up [...]
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Free Piano Lessons in Honor of Composers 200th Birthday
In honor of the 200th birthday of German composer Robert Schumann (June 8th 1810-July 29th 1856) the New Jersey School of Music in Cherry Hill is offering a free sample piano lesson to anyone who calls and asks for one. The free lesson can be used any time before the end of [...]
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Graduations mark ends, beginnings
High school graduations have commenced around South Jersey and will continue to roll out to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" for the rest of June.
With them come old and new traditions, weather-related uncertainties, and the mixed emotions of nostalgia and anticipation.
Read the rest of this article at: Graduations mark ends, beginnings [...]
