Don't know if many of you use the Trade Center PATH station. But if you do be advised that the station is being renovated. See the attached PDF file for further information!

path_wtc_advisory_20080411pfd.pdf

HappyPolski

The Bayonne Public Advocate is pleased to present an interview conducted with Mayor Malloy via email. Mayor Malloy was kind enough to answer your reader submitted questions in addition to the topics that the Bayonne Public Advocate will be asking of all potential Mayoral candidates.

Due to it's length, the interview is attached in word document format. Please click the link below to read the interview.

Click here to read the Interview with Mayor Malloy

neilbarton

Interview with Mayor Malloy

neilbarton

I have had a number of requests to have an in person meeting of the Bayonne Public Advocate. Therefore, all of those interested in meeting can meet up at the Networking Cafe (418 Broadway) at 8PM on Wednesday. This should give people enough time to get home from work before coming out. Topics that will be discussed:

- How to use the site
- Answer questions about my pending legal action against the Port Authority & BLRA
- Discuss how the Public Advocate can organize & moderate debates for the upcoming mayoral election
- Take any suggestions that any may have
- Answer any other questions people may have

Please note that ALL are welcome to attend, even those who are not in favor of what the Bayonne Public Advocate is doing.

neilbarton

Abbott districts are defined as poorer, urban or special needs district under AbbottII rulings of the NJ supreme court As follows from Wikipedia:

The Court in Abbott II explicitly limited the Abbott programs and reforms to a class of school districts identified as "poorer urban districts" or "special needs districts." In 1997, these districts became known as "Abbott districts." The Court identified the specific factors used to designate districts as "Abbott districts." These districts:

-must be those with the lowest socio-economic status, thus assigned to the lowest categories on the New Jersey Department of Education's District Factor Groups (DFG) scale;

-"evidence of substantive failure of thorough and efficient education;" including "failure to achieve what the DOE considers passing levels of performance on the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA);

-have a large percentage of disadvantaged students who need "an education beyond the norm;"

-existence of an "excessive tax [for] municipal services" in the locality where the district is located; and

Using these factors, the Court in Abbott II identified 28 districts as Abbott districts. The Court also gave the New Jersey Legislature or the Commissioner of Education the authority to classify additional districts as Abbott districts based on these factors, which would then entitle the children to the Abbott programs and reforms. In 1998, the Legislature classified 3 additional districts, bringing the present total of Abbott districts to 31

There is a Bayonne BOE plan hatching to get funding to create a 3-4 year old accredited preschool program, typically found in Abbott districts. I'm not sure the actual benefits as I foresee additional tax dollars to support something that is really no more than funded daycare. I'm not sure how this will benefit taxpaying citizens. I believe it will promote an influx of new (probably rental) residents requiring low-cost, subsidized daycare into Bayonne. Is this a service we taxpayers want to support in the current state of BOE taxes. Does it promote the upward mobility of Bayonne or does it support further decline into official Abbott District status?

Oh and I do believe that Abbott districts get additional funding........

I DO see how a BOE preschool program will benefit spending spending spending.....on construction (contractor buddies), administrators, etc.

LDePinto