Cranbury School-affecting legislation under consideration

[Guest2]

In a vote tentatively scheduled for January 22nd, the NJ legislature is considering a bill that would consolidate services including creating larger districts with school districts that have less than 4000 students (such as Cranbury) and having a County Superintendent with veto power over any school budget items.

To learn more, visit www.njleg.state.nj.us. The bills are Senate Bill S10 and Assembly Bill A4.

To let your opinion be known, contact your representatives.

Assemblyman representing Cranbury—Bill Baroni (Republican) 609-631-9988

Assemblywoman representing Cranbury—Linda Greenstein (Democrat)—609-395-9911

Governor Corzine—609-292-6000

Speaker Roberts—856-742-7600

Senator Codey—973-731-6770

[Guest]

Will the Cranbury school be forced to merge with a nearby school if this bill is passed?

[guest2]

I think it's within the bill's power to force the merge if they so chose.

I also find it concerning that for a bill that's supposed to lower taxes there's no references to estimated or projected amounts of money saved.

I just have a feeling it's someone's shot in the dark for fixing taxes without having done the due diligence behind it first. And it could be one of those cases of breaking something that doesn't need fixing if they start messing with a lot of these smaller schools.

[Guest]

Also, the State and Feds contribute to less than 10% of the Cranbury's school budget -- over 90 percent is from our local taxes. Forcing a school like Cranbury to merge has almost no budgetary impact for the state yet this bill would take the choice away from the local people paying over 90 percent of the costs to give the state control over its 6%...

[concerned parent]

Looks like the plan was pulled...http://www.nj.com/expresstimes/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1169356083264390.xml&coll=2

[a mom]

[Guest2]

No, unfortunately I think the link referenced is something else. S10/A4 are still kicking around. Bill Baroni and Linda Greenstein are coming to Cranbury School Thurs (tomorrow) at 7:30 to discuss the bill and it's implications for Cranbury.

[Guest]