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There are some school districts that are obvious to merge, such as;
These are so obvious and imagine the amount of money saved my merging the above. The other good thing is that you really aren't doing anything dramatic in changing income and demographics either.
You aren't familiar with any of these school districts are you?
Many of them do share at least a high school, which is practical. Combining more than that can be problematic, and is a diminishing return. Not to mention some of your choices of "neighboring" towns don't really work out in terms of proximity to schools either.
There are some school districts that are obvious to merge, such as;
Clinton borough and township + Union and Franklin townships
Menham borough and township
Boonton borough and township + Mountain Lakes
Rockaway borough and township
Hanover and East Hanover
Netcong and Mount Olive
Butler and Kinnelon
Montvale and Park Ridge
Hillsdale and Woodcliff Lake
Riverton and Cinnaminson
Medford Lakes borough and Medford township
Burlington city and Burlington township
Berlin borough and township
Gloucester city and Gloucester township
Caldwell + West Caldwell + North Caldwell + Essex Fells
Frenchtown borough + Kingwood township + Alexandria township
Milford borough and Holland township
Stockton borough and Delaware township
Lambertville borough and West Amwell township
Flemington and Raritan township
Hampton borough and Bethlehem township
Jamesburg and Monroe township
Long Branch + West Long Branch + Oceanport
Keyport + Hazlet + Union Beach
Shrewsbury borough and Little Silver borough
Farmingdale borough and Howell township
Asbury Park borough + Neptune townshp and borough
Freehold borough and township
Atlantic Highlands + Highlands
Farmingdale borough and Howell township
Wharton + Mine Hill
Lakehurst borough and Manchester township
Point Pleasant Borough and Point Pleasant Beach borough
Ringwood and Wanaque
Andover Regionald and Green township
Newton town + Fredon township + Hampton township
Stanhope borough and Byram township
Clark township and Winfield township
Alpha boro and Pohatcong township
Phillipsburg borough adn Lopatcong township
Belvidere borough and White township
Hackettstown and Mansfield township
Washington borough and township
Lincoln Park borough and Montville township
These are so obvious and imagine the amount of money saved my merging the above. The other good thing is that you really aren't doing anything dramatic in changing income and demographics either.
What did you do...throw a dart at the map and list a bunch of towns that are close to each other? What a silly, uninformed post.
You aren't familiar with any of these school districts are you?
Many of them do share at least a high school, which is practical. Combining more than that can be problematic, and is a diminishing return. Not to mention some of your choices of "neighboring" towns don't really work out in terms of proximity to schools either.
Sharing a high school or a centrally-located middle school can be a money-saver. But if some of the schools that could possibly be shared, are too geographicly distant, the administrative savings might be negated by increased busing costs.
Sharing a high school or a centrally-located middle school can be a money-saver. But if some of the schools that could possibly be shared, are too geographicly distant, the administrative savings might be negated by increased busing costs.
How's that? If kids in town "A" get bussed to school "A" and kids in town "B" get bussed to school "B", how does consolidating the superintendent, the personnel department, the business office, etc., of these two schools create the need for more/different bussing?
How's that? If kids in town "A" get bussed to school "A" and kids in town "B" get bussed to school "B", how does consolidating the superintendent, the personnel department, the business office, etc., of these two schools create the need for more/different bussing?
He's referring to how students from School "A" who wouldn't normally get bused, now being bused to combined school A+B (formerly just school "B"), busing costs have increased dramatically.
What did you do...throw a dart at the map and list a bunch of towns that are close to each other? What a silly, uninformed post.
Mendham borough and Mendham township. What, are you kidding me? Each individual school district has it's own Superintendant, admnistrative staff, district building maintenance. These savings could be diminished due to bus transportation costs? LOL. All these towns are next to each other(many have a donut relationship with one town completely surrounding the other) and many share names with each other as well socioeconomic levels. If this is silly then what would your strategy be. And people complain about New Jersey's property taxes......
He's referring to how students from School "A" who wouldn't normally get bused, now being bused to combined school A+B (formerly just school "B"), busing costs have increased dramatically.
But who's talking about combining schools? Unless each existing school is drastically oversized to begin with, you couldn't do that anyway without building new, larger schools. The point here is to consolidate the support functions (admin, personnel, purchasing, etc)- not the schools themselves.
He's referring to how students from School "A" who wouldn't normally get bused, now being bused to combined school A+B (formerly just school "B"), busing costs have increased dramatically.
But who's talking about combining schools? Unless each existing school is drastically oversized to begin with, you couldn't do that anyway without building new, larger schools. The point here is to consolidate the support functions (admin, personnel, purchasing, etc)- not the schools themselves.
Exactly!! Many on that list can be consolidated..the admin part of it anyway
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