I have had the opportunity to attend several events over the last few weeks and hear what various DOE officials and legislators are saying and trying to read between the lines. I have noticed a slight shift in the verbiage that the many in the DOE are using when it comes to this issue. I have heard the commissioner downplay “regionalization” as a solution in most cases and promote “consolidation” which, by her definition, is more along the lines of “shared services.”

Ray Pinney, NJSBA Blogger, on how the D.O.E. and Corzine’s push for school district regionalization will crash and burn once legislators realize there will be no financial benefits, NJEA fights anything less than the salaries of the highest-paying district, and voters say “no.”