“The passage of a 2023-24 budget by the Board of Education, which included significant job cuts, has left even some longtime residents wondering what is going on with a school district that has long been a source of pride and a draw for new arrivals,” Sergio González writes.
Sergio Gonzalez
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Vote Montclair members quit after founder criticizes school unions for protecting seniority
The two just-elected Board of Education members who Vote Montclair had backed say group founder Erik D’Amato doesn’t speak for them “nor anyone else who was involved with the now defunct Vote Montclair.”
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Turnout was low. Interest was high. What to learn from Montclair’s first (and off-cycle) school board election
What a quickly run race with a crowded field, held in March, does and doesn’t tell us
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9 submit petitions to run for 2 Montclair Board of Education seats (Updated)
Elected board members will serve a term of one year and nine months.
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Voting machine breaks down at Buzz Aldrin polling site for Montclair’s Ward 1, District 6
The machine for the Ward 1, District 6 polling site broke down around 6 p.m.
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Elected or appointed Montclair BOE: A breakdown of the big decision
Advocates for all sides talk about accountability, representation, protecting what makes Montclair special — but they disagree sharply on how to ensure or protect those values.
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An elected Montclair school board is an empowered one
Sergio Gonzalez says he admires his former BOE colleagues for authorizing the schools superintendent to sue the Montclair Education Association, but it would have been easier with an elected board.
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Magnet system? Busing? Accountability? Issues at Montclair Local forum on BOE
Voters will decide Nov. 2 whether Montclair should have an elected or appointed school board.
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Don’t disparage LWV’s choices for Montclair Local school board forum (Letter to the editor)
Susan Mack of the LWV says the group chose two people ‘who will most ably represent our position’ for the forum.
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Montclair Local’s forum on elected vs. appointed board of education: The lineup
Montclair Local’s participants for Thursday’s forum on whether Montclair should have an elected or appointed school board are: Sergio Gonzalez, Diane Anglin, Peter Braley and Johanna Wright.
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Elected or appointed school board? An ‘inflection point’ for Montclair
Several community leaders say they’re not ready to pick a side, but they support the question going to voters.
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Eve Robinson: I chose to step down from Montclair school board
“I look forward to a time when the community can come together in the spirit of collaboration and caring that I know can be achieved in Montclair,” she said.
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Montclair mayor: Claims I let union run school board ‘false and puzzling’
Departing board member alleged the mayor let Montclair Education Association vet at least one candidate.
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Mayor lets union run Montclair school board, departing member says
Sergio Gonzalez, passed over for reappointment, alleges Mayor Sean Spiller had at least one outgoing member interviewed by the Montclair Education Association.