Posts Tagged ‘ Board Of Education ’

Eighteen people, including several who have already addressed budget matters at recent Town Council meetings, came to Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting to appeal for cuts to Verona’s school budget. Among the ideas they put forward were an end to spending on extra-curricular activities, school sports, the school Web site and Mandarin, as...
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Verona’s public school calendar for 2010-2011 has been finalized and it looks a little different than last year. Spring Break, which for years has been scheduled for the last week in April, will fall during the third week of the month, April 18th through the 22nd. Students will also have off the following Monday,...
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Late last week, Gov. Chris Christie unveiled a proposal to limit the pay of school superintendents across the state. The salary cap would range from $120,000 for school districts with fewer than 250 students to $175,000 for districts with up to 10,000 students. According to the state, 366 school superintendents now earn more than...
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At first glance, the new contract for Verona’s teachers seems out of touch. A guaranteed increase of 3.85% per year in both years of the contract? In this economy? Dig into it a bit, though, and it begins to make more sense. Here’s why. Employers have fairly good control over salary; they can use...
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In the fall, students at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School will benefit from the expertise of an additional social worker, thanks to a grant from the Mountainside Health Foundation and Principal Yvette McNeal, who applied for the grant. The grant will provide funds for a social worker from Mountainside Hospital to offer small-group counseling and...
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Big newspapers, thankfully, still have the resources to data-heavy stories, and that’s just what The Star Ledger has done over the past few days on public school teacher salaries in New Jersey. Teacher compensation has received wide attention lately because of Gov. Chris Christie’s call for a freeze on teacher salaries to close school...
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Vacation’s over and it’s back to business, Verona. Here’s what you have to juggle this week. In government, there’s a Town Council meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in Town Hall. Since it’s the first Monday of the month, staffers from the County Clerk’s office will be on hand at Town Hall today from 2...
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Next Tuesday, April 20, you will be voting on the toughest school budget Verona has faced in years. That it doesn’t add very much to your expenses as a homeowner may be of little consolation if you’re trying to make higher property taxes square with lower income because of the crummy economy. The budget...
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At last night’s Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Charles Sampson announced further cuts to the 2010-2011 budget, necessitated by last week’s announcement that Governor Chris Christie is reducing state aid to the Verona district by $1.4 million, or 5% of the budget. In addition to the $800,000 in cuts listed last week, the new...
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So much for the luck of the Irish. Governor Chris Christie’s office just released the much-anticipated district-by-district numbers for the 2010-2011 school budgets and it’s bad news. Almost every district must cut 5 percent from its budget; in Verona, that amounts to $1.4 million. “This is pretty drastic,” says Verona Board of Education member...
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