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Long Branch Board of Education full 3-year term - choose three candidates
The Link News: by Neil Schulman -
Long Branch - Darlene Carfi,
James Parnell and Lucille Perez
are running together for the Board
of Education.
While not formally a team, the
three say that they agree on many
issues, and are asking voters to
support them at the polls.
Parnell and Carfi are each seeking
a three-year term, and Perez is
seeking a two-year term. Darlene Carfi, born and raised in Long
Branch, and whose daughter went
through the Long Branch school
system as well, says that she has
been involved in the school in
many ways, from PTAs to the Athletic
Hall of Fame.
"I have never been on the board.
This is the only thing I have not
done," she says. "This is the next
step in giving back."
Carfi has been president of the
Gregory Middle School PTA, Vice
President of the Middle School
PTA, and served on the PTO/A
council that oversees all the Parent
Teacher groups in Long Branch.
She is also chair for the Class of
1984 reunions (and is ready for
the 35th in August 2019). She is a
Long Branch High School Athletics
Hall of Fame inductee, and
when the schools made a video
on the historic high school, she
was one of the people selected to
speak in it.
Her motto is "keeping Long
Branch pride alive."
"I wear my high school ring. I
have the Green Wave on my keychain."
Carfi was selected for Shine:
100 Women of Long Branch,
which profiled the important
women in the city. She is a member
of VFW 2140, and assembles
baskets to give out to the needy
during the holidays there.
She says being elected to the
board of education would let her
serve the community in a new
way.
One of her goals on the board
would be to foster a love of learning.
I am a parent looking in, and
I would like to see every child have a
book in their hand," sbe said.
She also says that she would like to
help get more people involved. At
the last Board meeting she attended,
as soon as student presentations
were over, the crowd
thinned out to under 20 people. Lucille Perez, who has been married 40
years, got involved in the school
system as she put her child
through the system.
"When she entered, I became a
PTO mom."
While her daughter was in middle
school, Perez was elected to
the Board of Education, and
served on it for 18 years.
A retired social worker, Perez is
a member of the St. Michael St.
Vincent de Paul Society, helping
people in crisis situations.
Perez said that it is important for
the board to be able to get along.
"One of the reasons I am running
is the board can only accomplish
things as a group. When I
say accomplished, it is not that I
did it alone, she said.
Some of the accomplishments
of the board when she was on it in
recent years include addressing a
health care crisis and preserving
the historic high school.
As with much of the rest of the
nation, health care costs were going
up in the school system, and
Superintendent Michael Salvatore
was looking for a way to keep the
burden from taxpayers.
"Dr. Salvatore prepared a new
method of insuring the employees,"
she said. An on-site health
care clinic was built, drastically
reducing expenses.
And when the new high school
on Indiana Avenue was being
built, the state promised to preserve
and restore the old one. But
afterwards, they tried to get out of
the promise and demolish the
Westwood Avenue building instead.
Salvatore and the board fought
to save it, and got a $4 million
grant to begin the restoration
work.
Perez says she was also on the
board when seven new buildings
were created and two were refurbished,
and the early childhood
learning program was introduced.
"That is a permanent impact on
the city," she said.
Her goals if elected include increasing
school security. She is
glad that the city and schools have
teamed up to hire police, but wonders
if more can be done.
One issue is that schools are still
used for hosting polling sites.
She would like to see them hosted away
from the children.
"There are so many other places
in the city," she said.
She also wants to ensure that
civics is taught in school, and that
the focus is not just on preparing
for standardized tests. James Parnell, a lifelong Long Branch
resident, previously served six
years on the Board of Education.
"I thoroughly enjoyed it," he
said. "I believe in the superintendent
and his administration."
While on the board, he was part
of the negotiations team.
"We settled two contracts which
I thought were fair to both the employees
and taxpayers," he said.
His goals if elected include increasing
school security.
"I think they did a good job hiring
these police officers," he said.
He also says the school must address
issues involving PARCC
(Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers)
system, the standardized test
whose future is up in the air.
Parnell is a retired firefighter
who now works for the Department
of Public Works.
"People who know me know
who I am. I stand behind every
vote I have taken," he says.
AH Herald article Nov. 5, 2017 Meet the Long Branch Board of Education Candidates, November 2017 Election Edition (NOTE: this website is no longer available... see Wayback Machine archive link below.AH Herald article Nov. 5, 2017 Meet the Long Branch Board of Education Candidates, November 2017 Election Edition ARCHIVED by the Wayback MachineLong Branch Public Schools website showing Board of Education members
