Question of the Week: How about attending one of the BOE's community forums on the $30.2 million referendum?
The Fort Lee Board of Education is offering the first of five walking tours of the district's schools Wednesday. The board is also planning to hold three “community forum meetings” at the Jack Alter Fort Lee Community Center starting Dec. 12. The walking tours were planned to provide residents, taxpayers and other stakeholders a firsthand look at how roughly $30.2 million will if the school bond referendum passes in January. Now we want to know what you think. Are you going to take the school board up on the offer to show you what they mean when they say Fort Lee's schools are overcrowded and in dire need of infrastructure and facilities upgrades? Or have you already made up your mind, one way or the other, how you're going to vote on Jan…
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The first of five walking tours of Fort Lee schools is Wednesday at 11 a.m.; The first of three community forums is Dec. 12
The Fort Lee Board of Education begins lobbying efforts in earnest this week, or what it’s calling "community engagement," for a roughly $30.2 million school bond referendum—the fate of which Fort Lee voters will determine on Jan. 24—by offering the first of five walking tours of the schools Wednesday. Participants will get a firsthand look at overcrowded lunchrooms and hallways, classrooms in what were once storage closets, music classes taught in hallways and stairwells, libraries doubling as media labs, leaking ceilings, antiquated boilers and hopelessly outdated and inefficient science labs, among other problems school officials believe the referendum would at least begin to address. The five tours, which are open to the public and …
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J.L.C.
9:53 pm on Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Upon seeing the condition of the infrastructure during the walking tour conducted in early November it was evident that now is the time to INVEST in the bricks & mortar. It is a tribute to the teachers & staff that they are producing top results despite working in sub-par conditions. The expenditure is not frivilous but well thought-out and quite necessary. I encourage each member of the Fort Lee… more ›