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| Jersey Journal - September 25, 2019 CLICK TO ENLARGE |
Regular readers will recall that Hola could have been in the Hoboken Public School system. I proposed it as a program but it was voted down in 2009. Since then, Hola has become recognized statewide, regionally, and now internationally as a leader in K-8 education.
Read more about how the "reform" Hoboken Board of Education-- (Kids First and now their legacy in the Hoboken Board of Education who furthered a lawsuit against Hola) voted down the possibility of Hola being in the Hoboken Public Schools.
"I am amazed at the amount of time we have spent discussing Hola when we have the kind of test scores we just saw from No Child Left Behind," said Lane Bajardi.
"Instead of spending the last six months figuring out how to spin Hola, we should have spent figuring out how to develop a progressive tutoring program," said Ruth McAllister who is currently running for school board. "The children that we have to worry about are these children that are failing now."
"Hoboken cannot afford a trendy new program where it is wanted but not needed," said Jean Marie Mitchell, a former Board member and president of Calabro PTA.
Those who voted "no" for Hola being in the Hoboken Public Schools were as follows:
Jimmy Farina -- no
Theresa Minutillo -- no
Rose Marie Markle - no
Carrie Gilliard - no "We cannot afford to do this - we're going to hurt our children that are here right now."
Since voting against Hola, the Hoboken School District is consistently at or near the bottom in county, state, and national rankings (more)...but first in social media tweets about how great everything is going.
