Montague, a one-school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight, petitioned the state education commissioner in December 2019 for approval to end its relationship with High Point Regional, in Wantage, so it could go back to sending students in grades 9-12 to Port Jervis High School in New York.
A subsequent lawsuit by Montague, filed December 2020, accused High Point of bad-faith obstruction of its petition, which was not ruled on and is now a dead issue.
Montague s resolution directs its legal counsel to immediately withdraw the board from the above-referenced actions and cease the performance of any and all actions related to termination of the board s sending-receiving relationship with High Point Regional Board of Education.
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High Point discusses returning school board elections to April
Sussex. Momentum started after the five sending districts Wantage and Sussex, along with Lafayette, Branchville, and Frankford got hit with a 14 percent tax levy increase in the 2020-21 budget. | 23 Dec 2020 | 02:44
Wantage Township and the Sussex Borough unanimously expressed their desire to return school board elections for High Point Regional High School and the Sussex-Wantage Regional School District to April to get school budgets back on the ballots.
Momentum started after the five sending districts to High Point Regional High School, which includes Wantage and Sussex, along with Lafayette, Branchville, and Frankford, got hit with a 14 percent tax levy increase in the 2020-21 budget.
High Point will return to hybrid instruction right after winter recess
Sussex. The school will remain open for in-person learning unless ordered to close by the governor. | 23 Dec 2020 | 03:08 High Point Regional High School (Photo by Vera Olinski)
High Point Regional High School plans to return to hybrid instruction on Monday, Jan. 4, the day after students return from the winter recess .
High Point went all-virtual on Nov. 24 and remained that way through Dec. 11 because of rising cases in the region and three cases the district had previously been notified about.
On Dec. 14, schools superintendent Scott Ripley sent a letter home listing three criteria under which High Point Regional High School will cease in-person learning: An executive order from Gov. Phil Murphy closing the school, as was the case in March; when the region’s COVID-19 activity level report goes to red; or when the Department of Health determines that an outbreak within the school has occurred or i