Bruce Greenfield, who served as Ocean County’s Education Chief is among seven education chiefs in NJ who were laid off today. Their contracts expired today and Gov. Chris Christie decided not to retain them. The seven county superintendents affected were from the Corzine administration who would be replaced by Christie appointees.
The positions pay $120,000 a year. County superintendents are assigned to see that state Education Department policies are carried out at the local level.
A Board Of Education member tells TLS, Greenfield was a friend of the Lakewood community and will be sorely missed. TLS/AP.
Good riddance. Hopefully they’ll be laying off plenty more. We need new blood, with new salary and benefit structure. The days of sucking the taxpayer dry are over!
Good Riddance double that motion. why does the boe create positions that dont really do anything for education rather spend all of our tax dollars needlessly!!!!!!!!!!!!
As long as there are 591 school districts in New Jersey, cuts of this nature won’t amount to more than a drop in the bucket.
Read it again. He only got rid of the ones appointed by Corzine, he’s not cutting the fat he’s just replacing it with people who will agree with him!
The handwriting is on the wall. It’s a matter of time before schooldistricts are forced to consolidate by the state, and you can say goodbye to Lakewood courtesy bussing.
Reply to #3:
You may not be aware, but in PA there are only 6 school districts- SIX- not 60 and far from 600! But as this a widespread problem in NJ whereas in a little over 10 square miles you can have 4 different municipalities (I.e. Brick, Lakewood, Howell, Jackson) and 4x as many vendors covering what any county in the US (besides for the Empire State of Waste and Bankrupted CA) covers with less than a 1/4 the spending.
Do the math and you’ll feel weak once you realize how much waste there is in this corrupted system. It may be beyond repair as Gov. Christy – whom we hoped to be the right person to tackle the problem- is instead focusing on cutting salaries or replacing positions instead or dealing with the root of the problem.
As the saying in NJ/NY/CA goes, “Why save billions if you can spend it?”
Bruce was instrumental in calling down the state about tiny tots. Hashem always has a way of paying back.
To Anon
The handwriting is on the wall. It’s a matter of time before schooldistricts are forced to consolidate by the state, and you can say goodbye to Lakewood courtesy bussing.
hope you are right , cannot afford courtesy bussing any longer
Bruce was not paid by the lakewood BOE, he was paid by the state.
the Lakewood BOE hire him as their superintendent? He should have enough experience, no?
To #10 what a great idea. He is an intelligent educator. Someone on the boe needs to look into this. The staff would be greatful.
Keep that man away from Lakewood!!
He’s ‘bruised’ Lakewood far worse than just Tiny Tots, for many years.
Good Riddance.