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  Princeton Regional Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princeton Regional Schools is a school district in Princeton, New Jersey.
The district serves students in the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
Princeton Charter School is the only Princeton public school independent of the Regional School system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princeton_Regional_Schools   (173 words)

  
 Fork Lift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fork Lift is working to provide K-12 students in the Princeton Regional Schools District with a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between food, physical fitness and health, empowering them and their families to make informed choices for lifelong health.
Fork Lift was formed in 2003 by parents of children in Princeton Regional Schools in response to the burgeoning epidemic of diet-related diseases.
Fork Lift proposes a four-part initiative to be implemented in the Princeton Regional Schools District in 2004-05.
www.princeton.edu /~cbli/profiles/forklift.html   (693 words)

  
 New Jersey Department of Education - 2003-04 New Jersey School Report Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The mission of the Princeton Regional Schools is to “prepare each student to thrive as a self-confident adult in a rapidly changing and competitive future.” To accomplish this mission, the district adheres to an educational philosophy that promotes excellence and quality in teaching and learning.
John Witherspoon Middle School serves 682 students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades and 1,241 students are enrolled in the ninth to twelfth grades at Princeton High School.
Princeton High School’s Class of 2004 had a SAT mean verbal score of 611 and a SAT mean math score of 626.
education.state.nj.us /rc/rc04/narrative/21/4255/21-4255-000.html   (577 words)

  
 NJAPIE Exemplary Partnership Program Award
The first Coordinator of PYA and a previous teacher in the Princeton Regional Schools, Dr. Shirley Paris, was responsible for a significant portion of the vision and mission of PYA.
In recognition of the long standing gap in academic achievement between minority children and their peers in the Princeton schools, PYA attempts in a most significant way to bring successful learning environments to the locations where these children live.
The Princeton Regional School Board has demonstrated beyond words that it is committed to improving the education of all its students and recognizes that the team of housing advocates and parents share a common goal." Lucy James, Princeton Community Housing.
www.njapie.org /awards/1997psd.html   (1270 words)

  
 Princeton Schools and Educational Institutions :: Princeton Online, Community Website for Princeton New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Princeton Regional School District serves students from Princeton Borough and Princeton Township as well as from a few neighboring communities.
Princeton residents play an important part in the governing process, both through organized parents' groups and through individual service on committees and task forces.
Princeton Charter School is a public school in Princeton Township, New Jersey, offering a free, academically rigorous education to students in kindergarten through grade eight.PCS operates under a charter granted on January 15, 1997 by the Commissioner of Education of the State of New Jersey.
www.princetonol.com /local/schools.shtml   (346 words)

  
 FL Notes - Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Princeton decided to develop the elementary program using a single language; results from a questionnaire sent to the district's elementary families showed Spanish to be the overwhelming choice.
The elementary curriculum in Princeton is a series of thematic units designed to connect at each grade level with other core subjects such as science, social studies, mathematics, and language arts.
Since Princeton Regional Schools implemented the new elementary curriculum at all grade levels in the same year, the teachers are, at present, adapting the curriculum for use at grade levels different from those in the original plan.
www.flenj.org /flnotes/winter2003/engaging.shtml   (1584 words)

  
 Town Topics
The Princeton Regional School District has agreed to build two softball fields at John Witherspoon Middle School as part of a recent settlement with parents of female athletes at Princeton High School.
The school system has also agreed to establish and/or maintain policies, practices, and systems to ensure equivalent programs for boys' and girls' softball and ice hockey teams, in areas including expenditures, equipment and supplies, training services, practice arrangements, competition schedules, and coaches' salaries.
She added that Princeton has been in the forefront in women's athletics, and is one of only two public schools in the state to offer ice hockey for females.
www.towntopics.com /jun0105/story3.html   (537 words)

  
 Visa & Visitor Services
The Princeton community is particularly devoted to the education of its children and justifiably proud of the high quality of its public school system.
The high school, considered by many to be one of the best in the country, offers a high-quality academic program primarily designed to prepare students for college-level education.
The school system offers a full range of supportive services, including programs for special needs students, health services, speech correction, remedial instruction, psychological services, guidance counseling, etc. English is a second language for over 15 percent of the school population due, in part, to visiting scholars at the Institute and the University.
www.admin.ias.edu /vvs/princeton_schools.php   (502 words)

  
 Welcome To Princeton University Facilities Website
A physical examination is required of all students new to the Princeton Regional Schools system; the system accepts a report from your private physician regarding a recent (within the last six months) examination in lieu of getting a new one.
Princeton University expects all residents to fulfill the terms of their housing contracts and holds them financially accountable.
Princeton merchants prosecute shoplifters, regardless of how trivial the act may be viewed by the offenders.
facilities.princeton.edu /housing/b_graduate/apt_life.htm   (12212 words)

  
 Community Ties
Princeton Stadium, which is used for community events such as the June Fete, the huge annual spring fund-raising event for the University Medical Center at Princeton Auxiliary.
Princeton area high school students—who have completed the highest-level course work at their high schools and obtain permission from their principals—may take University courses at no cost in foreign languages, computer science, mathematics, and music.
Princeton University remained the largest private employer in Mercer County, with approximately 5,400 employees in 2004–05.
web.princeton.edu /sites/pucsa/CommunityTies.htm   (2095 words)

  
 Princeton - A Princeton Profile, 2003-04 - Town/Gown Relations
Princeton University continued to play an important role in attracting prestigious international corporations to central New Jersey, particularly to the University-developed Forrestal Center properties in Plainsboro and South Brunswick.
This figure includes the contributions from faculty, staff, and retirees from the main campus and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and the University's institutional match each year of 10 to 15 percent of employee contributions; for the 2002 campaign, the University match was $22,000.
A significant in-kind contribution is made to Princeton High School students who are allowed to enroll in University classes if they have excellent academic records and have completed the curriculum in the high school (at current tuition costs for 45 young people, this gift is worth an estimated $160,000 annually).
www.princeton.edu /pr/facts/profile/03/31.htm   (4382 words)

  
 Princeton Charter School Founder Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Princeton Charter School Founders (PCSF) are either parents of children currently attending the Princeton Regional Schools or teachers certified in the state of New Jersey.
She was a member of the Princeton Regional School Mathematics Curriculum Committee during 1991-92, and has been a member of the Educational Technology Committee since 1995.
In the 1991-1992 school year she was a member of the Princeton Regional School mathematics curriculum committee.
pcs.k12.nj.us /charter/node21.html   (2172 words)

  
 Princeton New Jersey Real Estate
The greater Princeton area is located directly in the center of the state.
Nassau Street, the towns main thoroughfare, is dominated on one side by the Princeton University campus, with Nassau Hall and the main gate lying directly up from the commercial center of Palmer Square.
Princeton's charming residential streets, watched over by beautiful old trees, have been called home by famous people from Albert Einstein and Woodrow Wilson to recent Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison.
www.relocate-america.com /states/NJ/cities/princeton.htm   (321 words)

  
 PHS Alumni Activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Class of '38 and beloved educator with Princeton Regional Schools for 40 years, passed away on Thursday, November 7, 2002 at the age of 80.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Florence M. Burke Memorial Fund to Benefit the Princeton Regional Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 156, Kingston, NJ 08528.
Princeton High School is pleased to announce the release of the Princeton High School alumni directory with the assistance of the Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company!
phs.prs.k12.nj.us /Alumni   (647 words)

  
 Children - Princeton Public Library
Princeton Public Library and the Friends of Princeton Public Library, with the help of the Princeton Regional Board of Health, mail to the parents of each newborn resident of the Township or Borough an age-appropriate hard cover book.
Princeton Public Library encourages preschoolers, elementary school students and teens to participate in Summer Reading Clubs.
Teachers have told us that children who read during the summer start school in the fall at the same reading level that they left in the spring, requiring less review time.
www.princetonlibrary.org /children/library   (695 words)

  
 MSAN
The Minority Student Achievement Network is an unprecedented national coalition of multiracial, relatively affluent suburban school districts that have come together to study the disparity in achievement between white students and students of color through intensive research.
In February 1999, superintendents from fifteen urban-suburban school districts across the country agreed to form a network to improve the academic achievement of students of color, specifically African American and Latino students.
They are school districts willing to acknowledge explicitly the nature of the achievement gap and are willing to discover and propose strategies to change school structure and practice.
www.msanetwork.org /aboutus.asp   (496 words)

  
 Princeton Regional schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information
Compare with all elementary schools from this district.
NCLB requires all districts and schools receiving Title I funds to meet state "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) goals for their total student populations and for specified demographic subgroups, including major ethnic/racial groups, economically disadvantaged students, limited English proficient (LEP) students, and students with disabilities.
If a school fails to meet AYP goals for two or more years, it is classified as a school in need of improvement and faces consequences.
www.greatschools.net /cgi-bin/nj/district_profile/437   (930 words)

  
 Riverside Partnerships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Incorporated in June, 1994, the Princeton Education Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization committed to enhancing the quality of the educational experience for students and prospective students of the Princeton Regional Schools through private support of projects and programs.
The board of Trustees consists of volunteers from the Princeton community with the Superintendent of Schools and a Board of Education member serving in ex-officio capacities.
Princeton Regional School'sWWW Home Page is the parent of this server.Find general school district information and pointers to a variety of other local and global sites.
athena.prs.k12.nj.us /groups/rs/PTO/ARSPartnerships.html   (349 words)

  
 The Princeton Club of Philadelphia
The Princeton Club of Philadelphia was founded in 1868 and is among the nation's oldest Princeton regional alumni associations.
Our mission is to promote the interests of Princeton University and her greater Philadelphia area alumni, as well as those of current and prospective students.
We also endeavor to support certain Princeton- related charitable purposes, which enhance the local reputation of the University and the Club, and to foster good fellowship among Princeton alumni, their families and friends.
alumni.princeton.edu /~paa396   (254 words)

  
 FL Notes - Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Each elementary school has one teacher of Spanish for third through fifth grade; two additional Spanish teachers for the primary grades split their teaching between two schools each.
There are eighteen elementary schools, six middle schools, and the largest high school in the state with an enrollment of close to 5,000 students.
The public school population of approximately 20,000 is wonderfully diverse with youngsters representing many different racial, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
www.flenj.org /flnotes/autumn2002/njdoewlupdate.shtml   (2654 words)

  
 America Reads Subcontracts
Representatives of all primary partners, except Princeton University, serve on the Advisory Panel, along with parents of participating children and officials of several community organizations, including some that are cooperating partners.
Princeton's school-board members, educators, parents, and community members have expressed concern about the differential rates of academic achievement and progress of students from various population groups in our schools: We are less successful teaching pupils from poor homes and from African-American or Hispanic families.
PYA is dedicated to serving all children who reside in the Princetons, including those who attend non-public schools.
www.nwrel.org /ecc/abstracts/lss4.htm   (1431 words)

  
 CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05
CALI is a nonprofit consortium of nearly all law schools in the U.S. that does applies research and development in the creation, design and delivery of legal education to students and the public.
She is involved in various local, regional and international copyright projects, all addressing issues affecting access to information in developing countries.
Devin decided to attend law school after participating in the massive demonstrations during the 1999 Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, where he acted as a street medic and also as a logistical coordinator for the Independent Media Center, which was founded in the months before the demonstrations.
www.cfp2005.org /Speakers.html   (11865 words)

  
 Video Server Solution: Small But Profitable
Their model has yet prove itself, but the contracts are beginning to roll in, expanding the company’s reach from local to regional contracts (including a big one with New Jersey Network) to national accounts.
PSG is deploying classroom VOD systems this summer for use in the new school year, for the Princeton Regional School District, the Hopewell Regional School District, and for the Arizona State University-West media studies department.
For example, Peter Thomson from Princeton Regional Schools is an early adopter of PSG’s Classroom VOD suite.
www.princetoninfo.com /200409/40915f01.html   (3182 words)

  
 CRF9 Report - 1 records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
An independent, private non-profit, all-volunteer organization committed to enhancing the quality of the educational experience for students and prospective students of Princeton Regional Schools through private support of projects and programs.
The foundation was created in order to supplement the existing services in the Princeton public schools, and to support multi-year, district-wide projects with its funds (excluding state mandated programs or basic education requirements).
The organization awards mini-grants for classroom projects to teachers, administrators, other school personnel, or outside organizations on a competitive basis in cooperation with the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools.
www.princeton.lib.nj.us /crf/409.htm   (197 words)

  
 Visitations to the 2004-06 World Languages Model Program Resource Centers
The Elizabeth Public School District is comprised of twenty-six schools including one Early Childhood Center for three and four year old children.
The elementary school enrollment is 6,224 and the high school enrollment totals 2,803 students.
The elementary and middle school world languages program was implemented in September 1999 and continues to be expanded.
www.state.nj.us /njded/aps/cccs/wl/resource.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Princeton Regional Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Board is an elected, unpaid group of ten citizens who set policy and make decisions on educational, financial, and personnel matters for the Princeton Regional Schools on behalf of all residents.
The Board and the school district operate under applicable New Jersey laws and under regulations of the New Jersey State Board of Education.
RESOLVED that the Board of Education approve the joint transportation agreement between the Princeton Board of Education and the Middlesex County Education Commission to transport Princeton students for the 2002-03 school year.
www.prs.k12.nj.us /District/Administration/BOE/Archives/Agendas/2002-2003/082702.html   (1752 words)

  
 Princeton Township SBAC Page
Liaison is principally with the Engineering Department, Traffic Safety Committee, the Princeton Regional Planning Board, and the Borough Traffic and Transportation Committee.
There were many interested parents and citizens, including members of the Princeton Regional Board of Education, the PTO, Princeton Regional Planning Board members, and many township and borough officials — among them the late Mayor Joseph P. O'Neill — all of whom contributed.
Well over half of the parents with children in the Princeton Regional elementary schools completed the survey form, around 800 responses.
www.patmedia.net /ftg/sbac.htm   (472 words)

  
 Rider University :: newswire@Rider :: CONNECT-ED
The focus of the new grant is CONNECT-ED (Consortium for New Explorations in Coherent Teacher Education), a Central New Jersey-based partnership of 13 public school districts, two independent schools, two universities, one community college, one corporation, and other community partners.
Partners include Trenton Public Schools, City of Burlington Public Schools, East Windsor Regional School District, Ewing Township School District, Hillsborough Township Public Schools, Hopewell Valley Regional School District, Lawrence Township Public Schools.
Other partners are: Montgomery Township School District, Princeton Regional Schools, South Brunswick Township Public Schools, Warren Township Schools, Washington Township Board of Education, and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Schools, The Pennington School and New Grange School, Rider and Princeton Universities, Raritan Valley Community College, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and the Mercer County Education Technology Training Center (ETTC).
www.rider.edu /news/newswire/fall2004/nw122104/connect-ed.htm   (323 words)

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