Cliffside Park board approves consent items, moves forward on 2026–27 budget kickoff; superintendent previews life-skills curriculum and trips

The Cliffside Park Board of Education approved a package of consent and agenda items and heard staff updates on curriculum, student activities and several facilities projects during a regularly scheduled meeting.

Superintendent (name not specified) told the board the district is finalizing a K–12 life-skills curriculum “going to focus on skills that, our MD, or autism students are going to be using and going to be focusing on as they go from kindergarten all the way up to the twelfth grade.” The superintendent said the curriculum team includes O’Hanlon, Rowe, Canales and Pinto and that the board can expect materials at the October meeting.

The superintendent also reviewed NJSLA (New Jersey Student Learning Assessments) results distributed to families this week and encouraged parents with questions to contact teachers, principals or school counselors. “Students last spring sat for the NJSLA assessment,” the superintendent said. The district will hold a district professional development day on Sept. 30 for staff to compare NJSLA results with Renaissance Star assessment data and to identify priority standards and instructional strategies.

High school student leaders — members of the high school executive team — presented a brief report on the first day of school and sought board support for a student festival. The student president (name not specified)…