Board of Ed to Vote on Shared Service Proposal

The will vote tonight on a shared service proposal with the Rochelle Park School District.

If approved, Fair Lawn would become the business administrator for Rochelle Park, a one-school district.

“They’re gonna save some tax dollars for their district -- their one-school operation -- and we’re going to bring some additional revenue into Fair Lawn Schools,” Superintendent Bruce Watson said. “It’s a win-win for both schools. That’s the only way it would work.”

Watson said this would be the first time that Fair Lawn would help run another school district on the business side.

“We’ve got to run schools differently than we ever ran them before,” he said. “The outside world continues to change and school systems are slow -- it’s a reality.  We can’t do that anymore.”