Union City School Board

August 29, 2006 - 6:28pm
PRESS RELEASE

Cardinale: Tell the Other Side of Abbott Funding

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), a member of the Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Reform issued the following statement in response to a presentation today by the Superintendent of the Union City School District.

I applaud the success of certain aspects of the Union City School System, but there’s another side. There are many who contend that Abbott money has created a cesspool of corruption in Union City schools.

Many employees are hired because of their political connections to the governing authority of Union City. The Union City School Board is composed almost entirely of mayoral appointees who hold additional political positions in government and are subject to the influence of the political majority. They have 300 lunch room aides, and only months ago a newly elected Union City Commissioner was hired by the school system in a $75,000 position created specifically for him. This position had previously not existed.

It’s unfortunate that at today’s hearing the committee chairs would not allow me to continue my line of questioning that would have exposed the other side of Abbott funding.

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