Just make sure you show up on an ELEC report for all this work you are doing for your new...clients. You don't want to end up like your co-hoe...
Lane Bajardi, who has NEVER appeared in an ELEC report for Beth Mason or Tim Occhipinti. He appears in this midnight video for Occhipinti's campaign leaders. http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2010/10/grist-for-mill-midnight-monday-meeting.html
Is he credited in Beth Mason's IRS filings? Does he credit her in his tax forms?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line

Just make sure you show up on an ELEC report for all this work you are doing for your new...clients. You don't want to end up like your co-hoe...
Lane Bajardi, who has NEVER appeared in an ELEC report for Beth Mason or Tim Occhipinti. He appears in this midnight video for Occhipinti's campaign leaders. http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2010/10/grist-for-mill-midnight-monday-meeting.html
Is he credited in Beth Mason's IRS filings? Does he credit her in his tax forms?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line

Clearly seems curious gal is out to discredit Kid's First by any means possible for political reasons, may be related to Beth Masson's agenda. This angry comment by her is just the beginning of the irrational attacks. Look for this tol escalate and the silly talking points will probabbly get more vicious and personall.

How does that help me? I'm not going to run the schools. We don't want that, just the Russo's and Raia who want to turn it back into a patronage mill.

You and your husband prosbus/HQ stink and I'm not paying for this.

Raslowski placed this district in that situation- takes time to get out of it.
Accomplishments in the Public District Schools:
new text books to replace 12 yo books
new foss science kits
partnerships with colleges for college credit
ap classes
Additional new gifted and talented program that meets state requirements
afterschool Johns hopkins program for gifted and talented
added extra HHS enrichment anbd remedial math classes (from 2 to 16)
new cafe for culinary arts program providing certification and college credits for those who apply
added algebra classes for 8th graders
expanded field trip policy
smart boards for k-12 classes
expansion of 1:1 lap top program
expansion of special education programming
continuation of Theater Arts Program
streamling payment services for food service debts
dramatically increased communication with parents
-introduction and utilization of districtwide newsletters
-overhauled district website
-district wide parent email blasts
constructing genesis power portal for parents to access student grade/hw/assignments
3 new Principals since since 2010
change from a discplinarian approach to a more proactive, support service approach
provided almost 1 million dollar surplus
lowest allowable tax levy
corrected all of the 20 recurring audit violations from prior admin
brought QSAC from 3/5 failing to 4/5 passing with scores of 90% and are 18 points away from passing all 5.

Hoboken High School going from "2nd most improved High School in the State of NJ" by NEW JERSEY MONTHLY and national recognition as honorable mention by US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT

If you remove the low scoring kids from taking the test (10r) of course you are going to get most improved. This was the scam your people pulled. That ended in 2009- the scores now refrlect all 11th graders, including the lower scoring students.

Ignoring and hiding the problems (10r scam), as Raslowski and prior admins before him did, doesn't fix them.

pied piper,

My gut believes you, but I would love a link to the 10r info. Could you point me in the right direction?

It is shocking how much money you can free up to spend on new books, computers & other supplies when you get rid of a bunch of no-show jobs.

10r was a hush hush operation, as the administration didn't want the public to know what was going on. There were many ,many complaints by parents that there child was told they would not be taking the test. 10r in essence was a hold over. The following year, those 10r kids were passed onto the 12th grade. Think: transitional kindergarden classes, where k studnets who werent ready to go to first, remained in a transitional K program and were then pushed ahead to 2nd grade at the end of the year. The only difference? hspa is given to 11th graders- 10r bypassed HSPA testing and increase the scoring avg for the 11th graders.
To view how this worked via data:
go to njdoe school data. Review attendance for years 06-09. look at 9th-12th grade enrollment numbers- You will notice that 11th grade enrollment numbers drop dramatically, every year, yet 12th grade enrollement numbers are similar to 10th grade enrollment numbers.

typical example of what you might see:
9th grade-135
10th grade-130
11th grade-70
12th grade-125

what happened to the 11th grade population?10r

typo: their not there

So the 10r (were there also some 11r) students showed up to school, but their attendance is not included in any grade level?

So that practice also would have lost the school some funding for lower attendance?

To put how badly mismanaged the public schools were, into perspective, it tool a BA and Superintendent who had approximately 40 years (each) experience, more than 1 1/2 years to correct MOST of the business management issues (damage/illegal filings/non compliance of nj law) and initiate/ implement fundamental improvements and focus on educating students.
The district was slated for State takeover as there were 20 repeat audit violations and had, during Rasloski's tenure, failed 3/5 QSAC objectives. Davis, the BA who was hired under KF majoirty, was the BA the state used/contracted for school takeovers. As such the state knew the district would be in great hands and deferred take over. Sure enough within a year, all 20 repeat violations were rectified and QSAC went from 3/5 failing to 4/5 passing with scores of 90% and higher in each respective area. The district is 18 points away from passing the final objective.

Consider: the district lost 5mm in state funding, rpovided the lowest allowable tax levy and was able to privide all of the above accomplishments/programs for their students.

That's how bad it was and good it has gotten because of the change of BOE majority.
Of course, this can all change and easily go back to the way it was.

FAP, you forgot the FBI investigation into Curiouslyobtusegal's new BFFs.

Red, I guess since the Russo Civic Association closed down prosbus and Curious Gal are hosting at their digs.

Avenger, that's true what you say about those Old Guard "noms de plumes". Word on the street is this year's theme, in tribute to the video game "Angry Birds", will be rolled out as "Angry Operatives". Take it easy on them, they have to post so many times a day yet have nowhere to get a toehold.

The most comprehensive coverage, full transcript, complete unedited video and analysis of the State of the City:

http://hobokenhorse.com

There may be another vehicle launching with additional coverage coming too.

Thanks for the links to Mayor Zimmer's speech.

Claire, can the videos be be linked to the Patch stories ?

Anyone is free to embed for their own website.

Accomplishments in the Public District Schools:
new text books to replace 12 yo books
new foss science kits
partnerships with colleges for college credit
ap classes
Additional new gifted and talented program that meets state requirements
afterschool Johns hopkins program for gifted and talented
added extra HHS enrichment anbd remedial math classes (from 2 to 16)
new cafe for culinary arts program providing certification and college credits for those who apply
added algebra classes for 8th graders
expanded field trip policy
smart boards for k-12 classes
expansion of 1:1 lap top program
expansion of special education programming
continuation of Theater Arts Program
streamling payment services for food service debts
dramatically increased communication with parents
-introduction and utilization of districtwide newsletters
-overhauled district website
-district wide parent email blasts
constructing genesis power portal for parents to access student grade/hw/assignments
3 new Principals since since 2010
change from a discplinarian approach to a more proactive, support service approach
provided almost 1 million dollar surplus
lowest allowable tax levy
corrected all of the 20 recurring audit violations from prior admin
brought QSAC from 3/5 failing to 4/5 passing with scores of 90% and are 18 points away from passing all 5.

Curious Kim Cardinal and gettheledout44 Bajardi... trashing the public schools has become your full-time occupation, hasn't it? Have the Russos adopted you yet? You are so protective of their buddy Al Arezzo. It's heartwarming how you care about Arezzo, but attack our public schools that your own child may be using in a year or two. What kind of parents are you? Trying to drive families away from public schools by trashing them 24/7. You could care less about your own kid, future public school student? Your hared of the mayor is more important than him. You 2 suck as parents. Somebody call DYFUS. The kid would be better off being raised by wolves. Poor thing.

Raslowskis administration placed 3/4 schools in a failing to make AYP situation. This adminstration has been attempting to pull the district out of it.

Didn't know you wanted the full list.....here are a few more from the year or so before:
-multiple admin positions cut
-Admin levels down to 14 for the entie district
-multiple retirements
-attrition-
-removing "left over" lunch aides, which were supposed to be picked up by outsourced contractors
-Immediate halting of illegal out of district students being allowed into our district-
-Investigation, discovery and removal of illegal non district students.
-No back door deals-
-Hiring of a Interim Superintendent, Asst Supt, BA, permanent Supt.
-Superintendent search: reference checks, visit to Supt current school, research on admin salaries research on vaca days, etc...vetting of supt., interviews etc...
-Replacement of entire upper management/administrative staff
-Replacement of 30% of the staff in Connors
-Review of all professional and other contracts, (ending the ridiculous protections and pay outs).
-referral to DA for illegal "issues:"
-Space Issues dealt with economically
-overhaul of district, student distribution
-District office staff holidays cut from 30-25 days.
-Cusodial contract
-Supervisor Contract negotiation
-Undergoing Teacher contract negotiation

-presentation of audit in full
-presentation of test scores
-Implementing a plan to improve test scores enabling the distirct to be removed from sini sanctions
-Implementation of a new curriculum, which includes staff development for all teachers in the district
-Budget review and preliminary budget plans.
-The only district in the state to cut the budget.
-Budget cut by 7%. State cut:9%
-Implementation of quality controls
-Implementation of corrective action plans
-Hired interim HHS Principal
-Moving 8th grade into HHS
-Moving alt HS into HHS
-excessing non academic extra positions (HVAC, Printer etc....)
--excessing Asst BA position
-reinstituting 8th grade Algebra
-changing over from IB (which graduated less than 2 students per year) to AP
-overhauling the Adult education courses, partnering with a college (classes to begin in 2011)
-Staff development for Language Art, Math and Special Education
-changing testing from Terra Nova to NJPASK exam for grades 1/2.
-Utilizing tesing measures in all grades, (including dibbles, SRI, NJPASK, Learnia, etc..)
-Securing grants and reaching out to the community to enhance programing and increase revenue.
-Created and implemented Corrective Action Plan for qsac and gaap violations which resulted in:

and more...
-Correcting ALL audit violations/ recommendations, including 20 REOCCURING violations from the prior era
-mulitple afterschool programs, including tutoring, science club,book club etc...
-retaining Theater Arts program, John's Hopkin's program, Harvard Model Congress, 7th and 8th grade one ot one laptop program, etc...
-Lowering custodial postions from 60 full time 20 part time to 36 full time 11 part time.
-Corrected many transportation services issues and merged services with another municipality to curtail transportation costs.
-continued research into further tranportation efficiencies
-Collected $1mm of prior uncollected revenue

Whatta fool. There was NO 8th grade algebra before Kids First. Keep sucking up to the Russos and Al Arezzo. You Curious Cardinal and getheledout44 Bajardi tearing down our public schools for $$$$ or because you're nus? Doesn't matter. Clearly your hatred for the mayor trumps your responsibility as the parents of a young child who may be a public school student in a year or 2. What kind of parents are you? Tearing down the public schools 24/7. Driving families away from our public schools. The ones your child may attend. Don't you care about supporting our public schools your own kid's sake? You both suck as parents. Somebody call DYFUS. The kid would be better off being raised by wolves.

Curiouspaidoperative better be careful. The clearly scrippted commentss sound a little too nasty. Beth Mazin won't like it. calm down, its a long ways to the BofE eletions, there's plenty of time to spin

Probably a few names actually. At some point she will have to try to sound like a "concerned parent" who is not being paid to trash the schools but who is just "weighing the arguments" for and against the BOE candidates. That will be entertaining. There are no worse disguises than the ones assumed by curiouskim and prosbajardi.

How about we just abolish the BOE, have the city take over the BOE and then Zimmer can appoint the superintendent and the trustees overseeing the schools and be accountable for the BOE so she can mention it next year? Will that make you happy Curiouslyobtusegal? Because right now you are sounding rather obtuse expecting the mayor to mention something she is not in charge of.

Now go get your Lame poofy haired husband, his turn to post his nonsense. Your curiously obtuse posts are getting a tad repetitive and are just serving to make you look rather stupid.

USE OUR SCHOOLS, folks. Do not listen to this nit wit.

The teachers are wonderful, and the learning evnironment is extremely supportive of kids at all levels of performance. Whichever end of the 'testing' spectrum your child may be, the teachers provide the time and materials to challenge or support them. These imbeciles are trying to discourage public school attendance, even though they are PARENTS here. They are more loyal to their political hatreds than their community.

This Curious Cardinal MOTHER hates the mayor more than she looks out for the welfare of her own child. gettheledout44 Bajardi would rather trash the schools than support them for the sake of his young child. They suck as parents. Neither of these 2 nitwits, blogging for poor Al Arezzo, give a damn about our schools. They should adopt Al Arezzo and change their last names to Russo.

Their poor kid. Won't somebody call DYFUS? He'd be better off being raised by wolves.

Red, don't forget the massive unibrow which casts his beady little eyes in shadow.

(WAAAAAA! The bully bloggers are being mean....)

curiousMasonlovinggal is so angry! so hard trying to defend Beth Mazin and her nasty patronage loving pals on the Brd of Ed.

Grafix Avenger- I thought it was ok to show disgust for the Board of Education? I think its well documented Theresa Minutillo while she was a sitting board member was "disgusted" at the shape of the public schools. Or, am I mistaken? I think the quote was we're failing our students, parents, and the community...and expressed her disgust
Causing this reply from the teachers unions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsi97HrjyQg

How must Minutillo feel now with over 90% of the students in schools failing to meet federal and state adequacy standards?

Listen, couch-warrior. You are a political operative with no interest in our public school system, your name doesn't belong in the same place with Minutillo, who has spent countless hours of unpaid hard work in devotion to our school district through BOTH her BoE membership AND volunteer activities, such as Career Day at the HHS.

You, Curious Cardinal the sofa general, have done NOTHING but sit on your fat ass at your keyboard and tear down what so many work so hard to improve for our CHILDREN. You've got one of those, right? No one could tell from your depraved political hatreds which trump the normal parental instinct to protect and provide for one's child No, you and your creepy spouse work to destroy the progress going on in our schools for everyone else's child, and your own. You and your hubby are operatives, have never done a damn thing to support the schools, never even SEEN you at a BoE meeting. Some interest YOU have in the schools. No. you're interested in protecting Al Arezzo and handing the School Board budget back to the Russo gang.

How about acting like a responsible parent?

Folks, USE our schools.

Nancy- please, save the pontificating for your own blog. My point is, if it was acceptable for Theresa Minutillo to voice and articulate her disgust at the operation of the Hoboken Public Schools a few years ago--it certainly is acceptable now. Dawn made the proper political decision not to mention the public school system in her state of the city address-- but you can be sure if things were going well, the mayor would have made it a highlight instead of bike lanes.....

Kim Curious Cardinal- again you compare yourself with Theresa Minutillo. You are completely unworthy of that but, I'll bite. Minutillo channeled her discontent with our school district into positive ACTION and works hard for zero compensation for the betterment of our schools. Minutillo is not sitting on her ass like YOU and your creepy spouse working for the Russo gang (has Al Arezzo sent you a thank-you note for your support?)

Expecting Dawn to mention education in her speech is like expecting Mark Toback to mention parking- but you knew that.

Back to the topic. Minutillo works her butt off for our district, you sit on yours and rip the school down. You are a disgrace as a parent. Name one contribution you've made to our schools... see if you can.

As for 'pontificating', unfortunately you can't run people out of here like you and your hubby did at Hoboken411. That must be terribly frustrating, not being able to ban the speech you don't like. Too bad, so sad.

How about attending a Board meeting, armchair general Kim?

And my child will be starting in the PreK program this fall. So there is my skin in the game.

Curiousgal and spouse, do you have skin in the game?

Getting paid is skin in the game. Unfortunately the twins never have heart or soul in the game. Good luck to your little one.

Journey------ Only the ZIMMER/kids first minions can say with a straight face that a district that has lost 18% of its student population in 2 years and has 90+% of its students attending a school that is failing to meet adequate federal and state standards (only 14% 2+ years ago) is on an "upswing" and was in a "death spiral" previously.

So, is Minutillo still disgusted about the public schools? Because it seems Dawn now is.....

She's talking about her child. You're talking about your PAY CHECK. Obviously the distinction is unimportant to you. Well, you DO work hard for the money. But are they PAYING YOU to alienate parents? Either way, just make sure you GET PAID on an elec form this time. You don't want to end up like...
Lane Bajardi, who has NEVER appeared in an ELEC report for Beth Mason or Tim Occhipinti. He appears in this midnight video for Occhipinti's campaign leaders. http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2010/10/grist-for-mill-midnight-monday-meeting.html
Is he credited in Beth Mason's IRS filings? Does he credit her in his tax forms?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line

Wow, CuriousGal, I just registered on your radar.

I've noticed a pattern, if you can't take apart a person's post and turn it to your advantage (or try to do so) you don't debate the statement very much and you call the person a minion.

I have never been paid by Zimmer. I think I have only spoken to her once ever. Can you say the same for the people you support?

I still believe it takes time and effort to reverse a death spiral such as the one Kids First inherited.

If only Curious Cardinal had a clue. There's a waiting list for my kids' school and the classrooms are at capacity.

Folks, please tune out this ignorant shrew. She has a young child, nearly school age, but sits on her rump attacking our schools and defending Al Arezzo instead of doing the right thing by her own kid. Which is NOT driving families away from public schools. I's NOT protecting those wish to use our school budget for patronage jobs. Thank goodness KF had that audit done 2 years ago- what a load of thievery went on under the management of Curious Kim's friends. Curious Kim, defender of Al Arezzo.

You'd think she's be interested in the progress in our schools since she is a parent. Nah. Her hatred of Zimmer trumps her responsibilities to her child to encourage the progress our schools have made. Which she would know about if she got off her rump to attend a BoE meeting. Buts he does'nt care enough. Politics matter more. Some parent. Right, keep tearing down our schools and hardworking teachers, keyboard warrior Kim. The school system that your own child may be entering soon. What a devoted parent you are, politics first, before the welfare of your own.

Curiousasshat needs to be more curious between the sheets with Pussface, it seems to me. Would hopefully take some of her venom away. But I am curious about one thing - is Pussface as challenged height wise when he is vertical as well? Does he have a unibody to go along with the unibrow? What exactly is he hiding underneath those shiny boys department suits that he wears while reading the time and traffic reports to the cab jockeys on 101 WINS. That may explain why she is such a vicious shrew.

Sorry Redrider765- My post ends with the words "Dawn Zimmer was instrumental in that process." (the current state of the Hoboken District Schools)---She is VERY responsible-- in fact, KIDS FIRST would not be in office if it wasn't for Dawn's political support.

And Tim Occhipinti couldn't have bought 500 votes if not for Beth Mason. How about she take responsibility for that one starting w/ 5-10 in club Fed?

And while we are talking about responsibility, how about she admit she lied about the surplus? How about she admit she made up her numbers when discussing the hospital sale? How about she has repeatedly tried to take credit for the work of others in a vain attempt to make herself look good? How about she admit that she had the backing of Applied when she ran for reelection? How about she admit that she knows a heck of a lot more about those hacked emails than she lets on. There is a ton of stuff Mason needs to take responsibility for. And I do hope the powers that be who are looking into some of the more unsavory items make her pay big time. And when she pays, I hope she takes everyone in her little group down with her starting w/ the poofy haired menace and his curiously obtuse wife.

Journey- Please save your anecdotal speculation on us. There's always been the movement you are talking about. However, at the same time the district population has been plummeting by 18% under KIDS FIRST leadership, the charter schools in town are bursting at the seams and every other school in town (Hoboken Catholic, Mustard Seed, etc....) are seeing increased enrollment. I'd say parents have been voting with their feet about the "success" of KIDS FIRST.

Well, have we just witnessed a confirmation by the shrew of the house that Curiousasshat and Pussface and their multple mutations are in fact that uber employment challenged and not appearing on any ELECc reports couple Kim and Lane Bajardi?

They have been voting w/ their feet for years The only difference b/w now and a few years ago is there are more spots in the charter schools. And since the charter schools have always been preferred by parents, as soon as those spots opened up, the parents put their kids in them. Had HOLA never opened up, chances are those kids would almost all be in the Hoboken public school system and on a wait list to get into one of the other charter schools..

Interesting, it look like prosbus had a post of mine deleted. The one where I explained how Theresa Minutillo has turned her discontentment with the school district into positive ACTION by volunteering on the School Board, in the schools and hosting career events for the HHS. Unlike the angry, bitter Kim & Lane who are despicable attackers of our schools and hardworking teachers and students. Even though their kid will be school age soon. What do these 2 piranhas care? They're busy sucking up to Al Arezzo and the Russos.

Too busy to do the right thing by their child and supporting positive change in his school system. Poor kid. He'd be better off being raised by wolves.

Grafix Avenger- you are so misunderstood.

No way in hell the schools will be better w/ that cast of characters anywhere near the levers of power. Last thing we need is anyone connected to the Russos near the BOE budget.

Bingo. The malevolent Melanoma twins are the new Al Arezzo apologists.

I hear former HHS Principal Dr. Lorraine Cella is suing the Hoboken Board of Ed and Peter Carter for harassment and sexual discrimination charges--- let's see how KIDS FIRST and their own disregard for ethics, morals, and the law play out over the next few months. Maybe Nancy Pincus can post the lawsuit on her trash blog?

Certainly, Curious Kim Cardinal, I'd be delighted. It'll only cost you $1/word. Have one of your pimps write a check. But please, no bouncy ones. In fact, it has to clear before I post for you, since you are known to shill for criminals.

Now, getting back to the subject, what kind of mother trashes her school district 24/7 for political patrons? You are a lousy parent. You have no interest in the school system in your child's community. A true disgrace. He'd be better off being raised by wolves.

Grafix Avenger- you asked CuriousGal what kind of mother trashes her school district? Answer: I'm not sure but I guess Theresa Minutillo is at least one example that comes to mind. She said she was disgusted and that the schools were failing the parents, kids, and community in 2007. Anyway, her "disgust" prompted this reply from the Hoboken Teachers Association President: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsi97HrjyQg

Got any more questions?

I understand your point Nancy but you need to understand Ms. Minutillo has failed miserably at leading the district. Perhaps she can continue to volunteer her time and pursue other ways to help out. But, its time she steps aside. Actually, its past time. TOo much damage (PIED PIPERS'S laundry list noted).

prosbus, are you Lane Bajardi?

No in fact, its not "time" for Minutillo to step aside. Let me guess... you and Draculatte want to put Al Arezzo on the BoE?

You can't possibly understand my point, shill.

You will be forever remembered as the defender of AL Arezzo, you and that thing you married. You 2 are horrible parents who attack attack attack our school district to service whichever politician you're tricking for today. You and Darculette don't give a rat's ass about the schools though your little one will be school age soon. That goes against nature, against normal parental instincts. Poor kid, he'd be better off being raised by wolves.

Charming... Curious Kim still suckling Al Arezzo.. Delightful!

Jabberwock, your answer- nothing.

Jabberwock- Good question
Here is what Dawn said about education 2 years ago in campaign literature for the political group known as Kids First: "OUR SCHOOLS ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR TOWN...I BELIEVE THAT NO PRIORITY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROVIDING OUR COMMUNITY WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE PUBLIC EDUCATION."
So, in an address to the public on the "state of the city" and keeping her quote in mind others and myself find it surprising/disappointing that not a single word was mentioned on what 2 years ago was considered by Dawn to be of the highest priority and the future of our city.

As for your explanation on why student enrollment is down--- I can't make sense of your sentence. But, the student population has gone from 2200 to 1800 in 2 years. At the same time, the population of the town has risen, and student enrollment in charter/private/parochial has greatly expanded. I believe the downturn in the district population has to do with the plummeting test scores of the district under Kids First and the fact that for 2 years in a row, over 90% of all students are enrolled in a school that has failed to meet federal and state adequacy standards (up from 14% when they took over!). Kids First has failed the children of this town and parents are abandoning the district schools under Kids First control.
Please don't hesitate to ask any other questions!

BTW, Dawn and Kids First are still VERY supportive of each other's efforts

Jabberwock- unfortunately, it's a pretty sure bet there are a large handful of screennames authored by far fewer actual people who are going to be on these comment threads asserting all kinds of slanted allegations against the current school board's Kids First, until the school board elections take place. Namely prosbus, curiousgal, gettheledout44, Hoboken Questioner, etc, etc. The objective is to get their political cronies elected to the school board. It gets very tiring they more than likely will just be looking to enmass sheer numbers of posts that will boggle the casual eye with their quantity, not quality. No post on Patch is likely to be immune, i.e.: Topic/ statement: "A new nail salon just opened on Clinton Street". Response (emphasis not my own): "Speaking of Clinton Street, THE DECREASED NUMBER OF NEWLY ENROLLED STUDENTS IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLEARLY REVEALS WEAK LEADERSHIP BECAUSE (fill in conjured up twisted logic-du-jour here)!!!!!!!". Then of course, others will need to step up to set the record straight. It's going to be a very long and tedious couple of months, totally avoidable, but see this hyper-partisan maliciously motivated politically funded smear campaign/ witchhunt for what it is.

p1ywood- tell your own to stop mentioning Beth Mason or the Russo's which each post and wild character ruining accusations and then maybe you may have a little credibility. I posted by rationale as to why I mentioned Education and I stand by it. Tell Dawn to stay out of Board of Ed elections. After all, Theresa Minutillo used to get upset when Mayor Roberts got involved with Board of Ed matters. But, that was then, right? Now its ok for Mayors to financially and politically support Board of Ed members and you would prefer people be quiet about it. Sorry-- not going to happen. Kids First is doing too much damage and while they refuse to accept responsibility, people need to know the facts. And, they will.

See what I mean everyone? And she's talking about credibility? The good old boy (& gal) network hasn't even rolled out their slate for the Board of Ed, and yet they are already tripping over themselves trying to get those slanted talking points and attacks out there. They certainly protesteth too much.
Interesting how curiousgal tries to lump individual citizens that oppose corruption getting a grip back on the Board of Ed's coffers as part of a "group". That inaccurate premise is because unlike individual Reform citizens, the bloggers I mentioned above are working in concert as part of a "loyal opposition" political apparatus and are closely following a script, and hence project their self-rewarding, lockstep world view onto others. Stay tuned for more (and more, and more).

p1ywood- you keep making false claims of past corruption at the BoE-- I'll work on informing people of the objective and verifiable data that shows the ineptitude that is going on with Minutillo, McAllister and company at the Board of Ed for the past 34 months--

And let's keep an eye open for when Dawn declares that she will personally pay any judgements against the city for punitive damages and harassment charges for how a 39 yr cilvil servant was handled by her, Liston, and her administration. You are so sure she was justified and did nothing wrong, yes?

CG, you are as relentless as you are tiresome and misleading. To answer your misdirect of a question, no, unlike you, I don't just make up and blurt out blanket statements because it's might be what Beth Mason might like me to say to keep the Old Guard political agenda ball rolling.
You are sad. I guess you dreaming up little character assassination scenarios makes you feel that at least in your dream world you are a step closer to that "non-sworn" position at City Hall you so covet as to distort and invent the shifting sands of your truth and alliances to get it.

Curious Kim you Al Arezzo-lovin's moron. first you suckle Al Arezzo, now you claim there was no past corruption on the Boe? One assumes you can read. Try this,from the Jersey Journal called "Scathing audit of Hoboken Board of Education shows more than two dozen irregularities"

http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2009/11/scathing_audit_of_hoboken_boar.html

And when you read it, remember the audit was requested by Kids First to clean up corruption- your bud Maureen was part of that effort.

"Auditors released a scathing audit of the Hoboken Board of Education
Tuesday that cited more than two dozen irregularities, including the misuse of candy-sale funds, incorrect approval of overtime and the payment of administrators out of funds meant for instructors.

In addition, overtime was being improperly approved by consultants,
instead of employees, auditor Dieter Lerch said at Tuesday’s Board of
Education meeting.

Auditors also found that stipends to several employees were either not
approved by the board or did not have other necessary documentation.

In other findings, several administrators were being paid out of funds designated for instructors, the purchases for janitorial and that office and other supplies were not put out for public bid when they should have been."

Kim/CuriousGal/whoever,

No response? I still believe, and I dare you to prove it with sourced facts, that student population is much more complex than you are claiming. There is more than one factor that goes into a decline, or incline of students.

Sorry for the type-o (Your unsourced and out of context information is *as* relevant as an anecdote.)

ThisMeansWar- hopefully many other people in addition to myself and HQ will be asking for Dawn to assure the taxpayers that she will personally pay any monatary judgements against the city of hoboken for punitive or harassment practices by her or her administration against a 39yr civil service worker.

I thank CuriousGal for first brining this issue to our attention but no one "owns" these thoughts. While it may be fun to play blog detective (and you cannot possibly do any worse that GA/Nancy Pincus) don't miss the forest for the trees ;-)
The fact that Dawn has tried to reach a settlement on this case would not make me feel too confident that she, Liston, and her administration are slightly over exposed on this. Recall her recently deposition on another civil service worker--- didn't make her look so good IMHO.

Enough for now--- enjoy the rest of the day.

Hmmm... Curious Kim prosbus Cardinal Russo Arrezzo, it doesn't take much of a detective to figure out you've logged in for hubby while he's lulling cabbies to sleep on 1010WINS.

Personally, I thought the gay marriage plug was done both because she supports it (principle) AND to show daylight between herself and Christie (political). Considering she is a politician, that's not shocking, is it? I'm thankful she said it. Principle rules the day and the fact that gays can't marry and have the same rights as heteros is horrendous. My 2 cents.

As far as controlling the direction of this thread, lotsa luck.

Yeah, it is truly unfortunate. Mr. and Mrs. Melanoma will keep on keepin' on. I'm of 2 minds- one is to ignore them like one would a poison fungus growing in a field. The other: we need a strong line of defense against the next target of the corruptocrats. And you know I have skin in the game. This is not a political battle for the people whose children are affected.

Ah, well. The beat goes on.

Grafix Avenger- I don't find CuriousGal wanting to scare anyone. But CG does seem to be reminding us of the disgust that Ms. Minutillo had for the public schools (under your interpretation this would indicate lack of support for the public schools) and seems to be providing people with interesting data about the schools under kids first leadership. Its just the truth-- and as I have read here before, truth/sunlight are the best dissenfectant.

Are you trying to say that it is not true that for the past 2 years over 90% of all students in the Hoboken Public School District are attending a school that has failed to make adequate yearly progress as measured by BOTH the federal and state governments? --- I don't find that scary....but I do find it applaing and other people are finding it appaling since the population of the school district has plummeted from 2100 students to 1800 students during that same amount of time.

Oh, Curious prosbus you've become so polite all of a sudden. I guess you're pinch hitting for hubby while he's on 1010WiNS.

Sorry, I don't play your game, am not repeating myself ad nauseum. That's your game, honey.

Let's see you and hubby run for the School Board, or volunteer in the schools, or run events like Minutillo, then you can bitch all you like. In other words, get off your nasty ass and do something for our community. Turning tricks for politicos may satisfy your ego, but you aint helping your kid.. You're a miserable mother, attacking our schools for political masters. The kid would do better raised by wolves.

Of course, this is most likely related to nearly all the schools failing to meet minimum adequate yearly progress as defined by the federal and state government standards for the past 2 years along with numerous and previosuly articulated administrative decisions made by the leadership of Theresa Minutillo, Ruth McAllister, and other Kids First Board members---

Yawn... I'm onto why you and Dracuette are so lovin' toward Al Arezzo. He sure has been good to you, hasn't he? See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...

The Vampire is on 1010wINS now, ply. Curious-G is logged in as prosbus. Aren't they clever?

Yeah, the same 'shouting' as when she sat her fat ass on the CAPS-lock on the top post on this thread.

I get a kick out of how clever those 2 think they are, they are unintentionally a hoot. And think that their spew-fests here win hearts and minds. I only drop in to slap them around.

I ran the posts through my proprietary "blog post analysis" program, and it told me that the posts by prosbus and curiousgal have some strikingly peculiar similarities, but only in this thread. Particularly the odd use of the single- and double hyphen-- (hey there's a couple triples in there too!)---

Perhaps propuss and curiouslyobtusegal are having an identity crisis?

Funny, hobojoe!

I'd have said 'unsophisticated' but 'corny' works, too. I'll bet those 2 go incognito wearing Groucho Marx glasses w/ plastic nose and moustache.

GA
How is that costume for them?

CG,

I was looking for another post and I found this instead.

I know 5 families off the top of my head that are moving because they have 2 or 3 children, no space and might still have more kids.

You call that anecdotal. You have provided no proof that is anecdotal or otherwise on why school enrollment decreased.

Where are the facts.