Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Board of Education accepted the resignation of Bryan Fleming Monday.
The Board of Education of the School District of the Chathams accepted the resignation of Bryan Fleming Monday during its regular public meeting. Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe said Fleming's departure to become the principal at Mountain Lakes' Briarcliff Middle School was "good news" for him, "though not necessarily for the district." "He gave us five excellent years as assistant principal, and there is no question that he is ready to run his own building," Fyffe said. Fleming's departure is effective Aug. 4. He was unanimously appointed to the role of principal Briarcliff Middle School in Mountain Lakes. Fleming will replace the school's former principal, who died in April. Tom Belding, the president of Chatham's Board of Education…
Dennis Fyffe will retire after 42 years in various New Jersey school districts.
After one year with the School District of the Chathams, Dennis Fyffe will step down as interim superintendent and into retirement. During the school board meeting Monday, Tom Belding, the president of the Board of Education, congratulated and thanked Fyffe for his years of service, which included six interim positions. "This has been a very good place to finish what has been a very good career," Fifee said of Chatham. "Virtually everbody I've dealt with has been great," he said, and "I've never felt, any time this year, 'I can't wait to get to the last day.'" Fyffe was hired in 2011 to replace outgoing superintendent James O'Neill. Part of his job was to mentor and groom Assistant Superintendent Michael LaSusa to take his place, which he …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
The annual report from the state shows significant errors in Chatham and other districts, superintendent says.
Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe said the administration of the School District of the Chathams noticed errors in the Department of Education's annual School Report Cards released Thursday, May 31. Two significant errors were spotted, Fyffe said, including a misreporting of the percentage of Chatham High School senior students who took the SATs. According to The College Board, Fyffe said, 93 percent of the class of 2011 took the SATs. "That's pretty standard for us," Fyffe said. "We're confident that number is accurate. Unfortunately the New Jersey State Report Card which is now out says that number is 78 percent. It's clearly wrong." The report card also states 100 percent of juniors and seniors from the 2010-11 school year took …
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
A record warm winter means the district has left-over school days.
After the Board of Education approved four make-up school days in the wake of the October snow storm, Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe said two of those days were no longer necessary. Each year the district allows for up to four days of cancellations due to snow or other severe weather. When the area was hit by more than 8 inches of snow on Oct. 29, school was canceled for five days because of power outages, downed power lines and tree branches and unsafe driving and walking conditions among the schools and both Chatham Borough and Chatham Township. As a result, the district held school on three make-up days so far this year: Jan. 2, Jan. 16 (Martin Luther King Day) and Feb. 17, which was an early dismissal day. A fourth make-up day was…
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Monday, February 6, 2012
The Board of Education holds a public hearing Monday night.
The Board of Education for the School District of the Chathams will hold a public hearing Monday on whether to move school elections to November. The move, if approved, will allow school budgets to pass without a public vote if it is within the 2 percent property tax cap. If it did not, it would still require voter approval, as would second questions. School elections currently held in April cost the district about $11,500, according to Business Administrator Peter Daquila. Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe said that cost "is really just the tip of the iceberg. ... A tremendous, tremendous amount of administrative effort goes into the [election] process here, often with good result in this town, but not guaranteed." Supporters of the …
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Friday, February 3, 2012
BOE to listen to residents' opinions on the potential switch Monday night.
Chatham residents could have one less Election Day to attend if the Board of Education adopt a resolution moving school votes to coincide with November general elections. The board will listen to the public's input at Monday night's meeting. Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill on Jan. 17 allowing school elections to align with November elections through any one of three possible means: Passage of a resolution by the local school board, passage of a resolution by municipal governing bodies or passage through a petition of at least 50 percent of voters within the district. Voters would notice no change to the non-partisan school board member elections, except that the expiring terms for current school board members would be extended until the …
Friday, December 16, 2011
The board posted the position internally.
Board of Education President Tom Belding said the board has posted an advertisement for the position of superintendent, in hopes to fill the roll permanently. "We posted the position internally and will be interviewing in executive session Monday night," Belding said. "As far as I am aware, application has been submitted by one candidate." When the board decided to hire Dennis Fyffe as the interim superintendent for the School District of the Chathams in April, then-Board President Steve Barna said he would mentor Assistant Superintendent Michael LaSusa to permanently take over the role. LaSusa was made assistant superintendent in 2010. Prior to that he was a co-principal at Chatham High School with Darren Groh. James O'Neill, the district…
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
High performing districts such as Chatham will receive less attention and have fewer accountability requirements than in the past.
The state Department of Education (DOE) will change to a “rules compliance” body whose goal it is to graduate “all of New Jersey’s children regardless of birth circumstances, their zip code and their level of need and graduate them college and career ready,” according to documentation read at Monday's Board of Education meeting. The reorganizational plan, which was unveiled to school districts this week, creates seven Regional Achievement Districts (RAD) each to be run by a Regional Achievement Director. The primary focus, the DOE said, will be the 100 to 150 lowest performing schools, the bottom 5 percent of the state. High performing districts such as Chatham will receive less attention and have fewer accountability requirements than in…
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
2010-11 school year only saw six total incidents.
Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe gave a positive violence and vandalism report when the School District of the Chathams held a regular Board of Education meeting on Monday night at the Chatham Township Municipal Building. According to Fyffe’s report, there were only six incidents of violence or vandalism during the 2010-11 school year, throughout a district of approximately 4,000 students. This is a point of pride for a school district that has worked hard to eliminate harassment, intimidation and bullying among students. “I think six incidents for the entire school year in a district our size is a pretty small number,” said Fyffe. Fyffe stated that the six incidents involved just seven students district-wide. Of the six incidents, four…
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Enrollment in Chatham schools increased by approximately 50 students over last year, and is near the numbers predicted by the demographer.
Enrollment in Chatham schools as of Tuesday matches almost exactly numbers predicted by a demographer last year. Student population grew by about 60 students from the start of the 2010-11 academic year, from 3,992 students on Sept. 5, 2010 to 4,055 on Sept. 6, 2011. Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe presented the Board of Education with enrollment numbers throughout the district at Tuesday night's meeting. His data also included enrollment since the 2007-08 school year, which showed a growth of 473 students over the last four years. Currently Chatham High School has a student population of 1,146 students, 45 more than last year. Chatham Middle School has 963 students enrolled, Lafayette Avenue School has 637 students and the combined …
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10:05 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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