April 20, 2021
Montclair Board of Education member Sergio Gonzalez, in a statement at Monday’s BOE meeting that was also released to Vote Montclair, came out in support of an elected Board of Education, stating that the MEA leadership “has worked tirelessly to usurp the BOE’s legal status as the decisive policy-setting power in the district, and in this effort has been almost totally successful.”
Montclair mayor Sean Spiller, who is also president of the NJEA, recently announced new BOE appointments. Gonzalez, who joined the BOE in 2019 as an appointee of Mayor Robert Jackson, speculated on Spiller’s decision not to reappoint him.