Somerset County Board of Education recently hired Schifanelli Law LLP to represent the county in all legal matters pending before the local Board of Education.  Lacking a full understanding of the matter, s ome of the less informed citizens appeared to criticize the Board of Education for hiring the law firm . What they failed to investigate before arriving at the public Board meeting (while intent on showcasing their own misconceptions) is that Schifanelli Law ranks among M

The investigation on the Somerset County Board of Education (SCBOE) concludes. As we stated in our past article , no law was ever violated by the Board. The assertions by the OIGE were plentiful, only exposing his ignorance and incompetence along with a series of desperate attempts to politically charge and weaponize state agencies against an elected school Board. The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE violated any policy or procurement law as alleged by the OIGE. As a result o

I will never forget the year that our local school system decided to give every incoming 9th grader in the county a laptop computer for use in and out of school. It was called the "one to one" project and it was promoted by our Superintendent as the greatest thing ever in education. It would make student achievement soar. There were many in the system that questioned the project since the Superintendent at the time, Karen Salmon, seemed in a hurry to get the program running.