They’re going to replace it

Thanks!

We’re having the same problem at the middle school level somehow as well. We’re being told that students who make up the work at a later date should be marked as present for that day. I see upwards of 400 students a week. I have no access to the attendance of other teachers so how am I supposed to know if someone is skipping my class? Not that I would have the phone number for security if I did!

In my school all teachers are required to call home if a kid misses more than 3 days of school. Most call after 2. Even so I know of kids that missed more than 80 days of school last year. We need to start fining parents like they do in other countries. Threatening to take them to court doesn’t scare them.

The absenteeism data published by NBOE barely scratches the surface of the situation. The high school kids get marked present for the day but don't go to their classes. With the excessive understaffing, including security guards, even with cameras there is no way to enforce going to class. Many children cut loads of their classes every day and still get marked "present" for the entire day based on the official attendance data that NBOE uses for their state and public reporting. NBOE has access to class by class attendance data and they don't make it accessible to teachers and don't publish it on purpose. I manually calculate 60-65% attendance daily in my classes and I call home constantly to inform parents. Even when parents know kids are not in their classes, what can they do? Plus, many teachers at the high school level have up to 220 total kids that they see every single day this year. This is especially true in hard to staff subjects like bilingual Ed. Teachers are teaching 7 periods per day, each period far exceeding the legal max number of students allowed in a class per state law. That means these teachers barely have 30 seconds per student for grading each week... and the NTU "president" wants them to call home for the 60+ chronically absent students on their rosters? The NTU should focus on getting more pay for dual certified staff to stem the staff shortages, not giving PSAs saying to call home more when that doesn't help.

Rahway is a cute town! It's gotten much better from when I was a kid, when downtown was kinda dead. Lots of new restaurants and residential development around the train station, easy commute to Newark/NY. Good mix of apartments and detached housing, and pretty diverse. The one significant issue is the constant flooding along the Rahway River. Avoid the flood zone, especially if you're looking to buy a house; you'll pay an arm and a leg for flood insurance.

I feel like that's where I lot of people go to from Newark or to Union. Not bad just bland imo. That whole stretch from Elizabeth to Woodbridge is one of my least favorite parts of NJ but that's more subjective. It's relatively affordable and decent.

School board election is April 25th. We are one of a few towns to keep our elections in April instead of moving them to November to save money. Because they don’t want people voting in it. Turnout is usually around 6%.

Below are the important dates. We will know who all the candidates are a little after March 6.

Last day to file petitions (50 days prior to election), March 6, 2023

Last day for registration and transfer (21 days prior to election), April 4, 2023

Last day to apply by mail for a Vote-By-Mail Ballot (7 days prior to election), April 18, 2023

https://essexboardofelections.com/election-dates/

South Street, there was an once a rail station there and path once said they would add one there on the way to southern expansion

Awesome video! Damn- Newark seems more dense and lively 80 years ago.

At 3:00 you're passing the PATH trains. They parked them back then the same way they Park them now. Back then of course, they were known as the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad or ask more affectionately known, the tubes a commuter service provided by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The SB path track can easily go over 21 on a partial Viaduct over the Northbound Lanes. If they really wanted to build it, theyd find a way. Highways and roads are constantly realigned whenever the government wants to build rail or highways. Also keep in mind when the South Street station reactivation was dismissed that area was not seeing much Redevelopment. Since then, a major apartment building has been built right next to the old station on what used to be a former rail yard. You can still see the bridge that carried the siding over South Street just east of the bridge carrying the 4 main tracks. Developments like this will once again make the South Street Station viable.

It's only two or three blocks south of South Street, a bus route. And the building most likely will be in the Harrison Riverbend slash Red Bull Arena Zone model with interior parking and residential around the sides. But that's just my guess.

It would be a nice addition to the South Street / Oak Island neighborhood. Southernmost place in the Ironbound before the Oak Island Rail Yard itself.

I think there was a report/study put out by PATH that goes into that too. I have to imagine the county might be willing to accommodate if it’s a matter that.

Last I heard, which admittedly was a while ago, is that a South St station is pretty much a no go because there isn't enough room for a platform given that 21 is a county road and not owned by the city.

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Do you have any more info on this PATH station? I’ve heard about a few different locations for added stations that were never built but never about anything in the ironbound.

Me too

I wonder where Will lived exactly in Newark?

On the bright side, if that proposed South Street PATH Station ever happens that space will be in prime position to capitalize on it.

Only thing I know for sure is it’s gonna be far too expensive to rent a place in that location

I know all of that but there's a still a fair bit of money needed to make these projects a reality. One of the most important ways to get funding is through the Federal Railroad Administration's Corridor Identification and Development program, which allows passenger rail corridor to get Federal money to establish service. In the case of the Scranton-NYC service, the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority is both submitting an application to the FRA and is working on a ridership study in partnership with Amtrak. As far as I'm aware the same can not be said for the Lehigh Valley area.

Its near 3 bus lines...so it has transit..

Both plans are oddly different from the state plans from 2010s which go all the way back to the 90s. The Amtrak 2035 plan calls for 2x service per day from Allentown and Scranton to NY. Under the PA State Rail proposal which i'm told is still the recommended plan , service would start in Harrisburg head east servicing all the major towns like Lebanon , Hershey , Reading then Allentown then more or less express to Newark with one intermediate stop. NJT would provide hourly service from Allentown to Newark-Hoboken. The same has been proposed for the Lackawanna cutoff which under the NY State rail plans restores service to the Southern tier / Buffalo/ Syracuse with at least 3x service from NYC. NJT would run trains every 2hrs from Scranton to Hoboken. The Lackawanna recently received funding for construction to Andover with phase 2 receiving some funding on the PA side.