Well, there are 12 people seeking to fill the 3 open spots this November on the Edison Board of Education, aka Board of Mythomania, Board of EdDems, Board of Dysfunction and Board of Hoarders.
You can see those running in a previous post and you can do your own due diligence on these candidates. While it's early in the process, it's Not too early to see what needs to be done.
Understand that this is the real bloated elephant in the room because it's where most of your money goes to get wasted and, as the stakeholder that pays all the bills, you don't have a seat at the decision-making table.
While the now $300 million Board of Mythomania's school budget dwarfs the $158 million Muni-budget that comes with a Muni tax increase while doubling the administration spending, it's important to recognize that Muni-budget was put together by an ill-prepared, ill-qualified malleable marionette of a Mayor that was hand-picked by the Powers that be from outside of town who brings nothing to the table but a Nothing record on the Council, a lack of substantive experience and, more importantly, a lack of credibility and trustworthiness - and a Council that tries to cover for his inadequacies by adopting it.
So, as bad as things may be on that side of town over there on Oligarchy Boulevard, it's even worse over here on Mythomania Lane, at the cross-roads of Board of EdDem and Dysfunction Streets.
Unfortunately, this Board is now nothing more than a Dem-party infested and politically-corrupt body that spends all their time fighting for power and control than doing what's in the best interests of those they're supposed to be serving. It's so bad and childish that they actually let the County Superintendent pick a replacement for an open board seat. That's a tad bit Pathetic.
Just look at the other side of town - you can see what happens when you let outsiders pick someone to Represent You. And let's not even get into the thinking behind a selection a Committee under this Board's realm just made to the JPS Hall of Honor.
Its leadership has long been inept and, most assuredly, while substantially locally funded - still fails to properly address the Overcrowding that has plagued this town for years and just constantly keeps this school district from moving forward.
Recognize that we have $300 million school budgets which is 80% funded locally and represents some 54% pf your total property tax bill.
We pay our Admin and Teachers very well with the Average Admin Salary being some $175,000 and Median salary some $168,000, the Median teacher salary some $95,000 and a Superintendent who holds down 2 jobs has to be over some $300,000 by now.
In addition, the teachers' contract expires on June 30, 2023 and will be up for renegotiation. Here's what we gave them with the contract that expires June 30, 2023:
In addition, the Super's 3 1/2 year Contract, which originally ran from 12/9/19 to 6/30/23 was extended by 1 year due to Covid.
Like said before, this Board is now dominated by inept leadership and Dem-party infested politics and internal fighting for control that they've lost sight on fixing the problems over there. They've created, prolonged or went along with the mess over there and Simply Need to Go as each of them comes up for re-election.
It's embarrassing that they have yet to produce a credible, rational and justifiable plan to address the Overcrowding yet they continue to increase their Ridiculous $pending and Hoard taxpayer relief money under the pretense that they're doing something. The only thing they are doing is Sticking it to the taxpayers of this town - just like on the other side of town.
So, while this town fights to get out from under the Dem-party strangle-hold over this town, the only way to deal with this Dem-party infested Board of EdDems is to Vote Them All Out as they come up for re-election and we need to start with these three up for re-eletion in November.
As we go along with this process, it will be easy to point out in detail why these three up for re-election should not be given a chance to continue on the Board.
Anyhoo, until you Stop rewarding these people for their Failures, they will never Stop.
