Tuesday's Woodbridge BOE Election - Column K - The Choice is Easy

Although there are no municipal elections in November this year – there is a very important local election for the Woodbridge Township Board of Education.

We are running to continue the progress we have made over the past several years in working with the McCormac administration to make our schools safer, our facilities more modern and our technology more state-of-the-art.

We have instituted full-day kindergarten, an amenity we lacked until St. Cecelia’s school and its 32 classrooms became available. We have installed new turf fields and tennis courts and tracks at all of our high schools, new playgrounds in all of our elementary schools, and gymnasium floors and auditorium seating and outdoor courts and walking paths throughout the Township.

We have purchased Chromebooks for our high school students and iPads for our eighth graders. We installed Internet access points in every classroom and have installed over 300 cameras throughout our district for obvious security reasons. We have relationships with seven local Universities to give college credits for courses taken in our schools and we have created innovative special education programs which keep our kids local instead of requiring them to travel to distant and expensive programs.

We have accomplished all of this while maintaining property tax stability in our budget. Major economic development projects in our Township have produced the funding for a brand new Ross Street School 11 and a nearly new Woodbridge Middle School to compliment the recently opened new Oak Tree Road School 29. We believe in working as a team, not only among ourselves but with our partners – our employees, our administration, the Mayor’s office and the Township Council.

Our opponent has attended only one Board of Education meeting this year and his only platform is to be against everything we and the Mayor do. He has offered not one single suggestion for improving our schools or our curriculum – he only has negative thoughts because of his personal vendetta against Mayor McCormac. Because of our terrific relationship with the Mayor, he has turned totally against us.

We are running in Column K and we are proud of our past service and we look forward to more improvements in facilities and advancement in education over the next three years. Thank you.

Daniel Harris (1-K) Ezio Tamburello (2-K) Susan Bourdin (3-K)