The Freehold Regional High School District’s newly retired superintendent, H. James Wasser, will receive approximately $132,223 for unused sick and vacation time he had accumulated.
October 03, 2008 BY JOHN MOONEY Star-Ledger Staff Action comes in wake of diploma-mill controversy at Freehold Regional New Jersey school superintendents have been asked to provide the state with information on their graduate degrees and coursework, as the Legislature seeks to crack down on educators using bogus de grees to advance their careers. The [...]
By TOM BALDWIN GANNETT STATE BUREAU The Asbury Park Press State Education Commissioner Lucille Davy endured a grilling Monday from the chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, who questioned how school administrators were permitted to adorn their credentials with academic degrees from fly-by-night institutions. During Monday’s hearing, Davy said that she believed the schools chiefs [...]
by Diane D’Amico The Press of Atlantic City The first clue came when the applicant for a substitute teaching position submitted a college transcript with stellar grades attached to a cover letter full of errors. “You look and you think, ‘What kind of college is this?’” Folsom school Superintendent Jean Rishel said. “Then you research [...]
By MARY PAT ANGELINI The Asbury Park Press New Jersey is a state in crisis, but it goes far beyond the financial realm. The list of indicted and convicted public officials and tales of flagrant abuse, waste and mismanagement of taxpayer money coming out of Trenton and local communities reads like a Stephen King horror [...]
The Star-Ledger The Freehold Regional High School District school board Monday night voted unanimously to accept the recommendations of the state Department of Education report that it change its policies so that it accepts only doctoral and other advanced degrees granted by schools with acceptable credentials, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.
August 25, 2008 The Star-Ledger No explanation, no excuse, no logical reason can be found to even attempt to justify what has happened in the Freehold Regional School District where top school officials got degrees from a university that has been described as a “diploma mill.” Adding insult to injury, the officials were reimbursed with [...]
Editorial The Press of Atlantic City You don’t need a doctoral degree to know it’s wrong to reward fraudulent behavior. But that’s what school boards in New Jersey have been doing when they give raises to educators who get advanced degrees from unaccredited schools known as “diploma mills.” It’s not a new practice, but it’s [...]