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Ali, Fulop vocalize issues with Jersey City school funding at joint meeting between BOE, council Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (left) and Board of Education President Mussab Ali. Screenshots via Facebook Live. By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View Board of Education President Mussab Ali said early on at the roughly hour-long session that the district will have $250 million cut over the next three years before Mayor Steven Fulop gave his two cents on the matter. “I think we all share in a common...

Jersey City BOE and city council appear to find common ground on school funding crisis The Jersey City Board of Education and city council met to discuss the school district’s ongoing school funding crisis last night, though the video wasn’t available until this afternoon since technical issues made it unavailable in real time. By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View “I think it’s a historic event for us to be coming together during this funding crisis and it shows the recognition that our ...

Jersey City BOE introduces $827M budget as they await clarity on several funding details By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View The school district’s current spending plan is anticipating a $153 million shortfall, which called for a $100 tax levy: which officials projected will cost households about $1,168 a year or $97 a month in tax increases. “Yes, it seems excessive, but we’re making up for what we were doing in the past … There’s no time like the present,” stated Superintendent of ...

Jersey City school district is preparing for a reopening. When can it happen? That’s the question Updated Jan 31, 2021; The Jersey City school district is working to get schools ready for an eventual reopening, but whether that happens before the end of the school year remains to be seen. The district released a 330-page document on “Building Readiness,” detailing the actions taken and the costs of getting schools in shape to safely bring back students, who have been learning remotely s...

COVID-unit staff at RMC in Anniston get ‘desperately needed’ PPP Air purifying devices delivered to RMC COVID-19 units By Jonathan Skinner | January 12, 2021 at 12:55 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 1:46 PM ANNISTON, Ala. (WBRC) - Desperately needed personal protective devices are arriving to help staff in COVID units at Regional Medical Center in Anniston. Twenty powered air-purifying respirators were delivered by the officers from the Oxford Police Department. They drove to Miam...

Elected BOE president at 23, Mussab Ali continues to makes history in Jersey City Updated Jan 06, 2021; Posted Jan 06, 2021 Mussab Ali, 23, has been elected president of the Jersey City School Board. He was photographed at Dickinson High School on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) Facebook Share Four years ago, Mussab Ali won a historic race. Twenty years old at the time, Ali won a seat on the Jersey City Board of Education by 68 votes in 2017 election, becomin...

By AL SULLIVAN January 6, 2021 at 6:17 AM Meetings of the Jersey City Board of Education continue to take place virtually. Meetings of the Jersey City Board of Education continue to take place virtually. Credits: Screenshot by Al Sullivan Ad January 6, 2021 at 6:17 AM JERSEY CITY, NJ - In a move that surprised a number of people, a rare coalition of former political opponents put together enough votes to remove Lorenzo Richardson as president and Gina Verdibello as vice president of the Je...

Jersey City BOE names Ali youngest school board president, Shaw takes over as VP At the annual Jersey City Board of Education reorganization meeting, Trustee Mussab Ali became the new board president, the youngest in school district history at 23 years old, with Trustee Lekendrick Shaw named vice president, as HCV predicted prior to the vote. Jersey City Board of Education Trustee Mussab Ali being sworn in as the school district’s youngest board president last night. Facebook photo. By Danie...

laes this huge, packed show coming up. to clarify some monetary affairs, but plenty to get through karen and christine. and yesterday, of course, the reaction to the fed boosted markets. how are we fairing today? the head lines out of davos in europe the talks of on sl going in greece, and so far markets a pullback coming back today. the ftse down in london. the dax off 0.2%. and initially the markets up about 1% so the worst performer there, the spanish down about half of a percent ...