New Jersey’s biggest school district, which gets more than $1 billion in state aid every year, pulled a sharp reversal by extending its superintendent’s contract in the middle of the night without public comment.
Hiring a superintendent may be the most important decision that a school board makes, but this decision wasn’t put on the public agenda. A board member who had abstained in September when this extension to 2030 was rejected said she’d had a change of heart and decided to vote yes, flipping her position to make a majority.
Why this urgency, with more than two years remaining on Roger León’s current contract?…