Englewood School Board to Consider $193K in Out-Of-District Placements

The Englewood Board of Education will vote on resolutions that would pay out more than $193,000 to send five students to schools outside the district at its public meeting Monday.

Those schools include Felician School for Exceptional Children, Windsor Prep, Ridgefield Memorial High School, Bergen County Special Services School District (BCSSSD) Transition Center in Wood-Ridge and Kaplan JCC on the Palisades.

School officials said at the BOE’s previous meeting in September that they had  closed about a $4 million projected shortfall in the budget by cutting staff and outsourcing secretaries and paraprofessionals this summer, and no further cuts in staffing are on the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting.

The school board will also vote on adopting a Math program, specifically for Algebra and Geometry, for third- through fifth-graders in order to meet the “Common Core State Standard Initiative,” and to implement a Culinary Arts elective class at the middle school and high school.

The board meeting comes a day after U.S. Department of Education officials said proposed Hebrew immersion charter school Shalom Academy has appealed a state decision blocking it from opening and denying it another year to prepare.

The school district had budgeted $785,000 for the proposed charter school before it was denied approval.

The Englewood Public School District Board of Education meets Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Dr. John Grieco Elementary School. The agenda for the meeting is available on the school district’s website.