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State removes monitor; Belleville Board of Education regains local control effective July 1
Summary
The New Jersey Department of Education removed the state monitor overseeing Belleville Public School District effective July 1, 2025, a step the district and its new superintendent said restores local governance while keeping oversight and fiscal safeguards in place.
Assistant Commissioner David F. Corso read a letter from Commissioner Kevin Damer notifying the Belleville Board of Education that the district has been removed from state monitor status effective July 1, 2025.
"Pursuant to NJSA 18A:7A-55a ... I am removing the district from state monitor status effective 07/01/2025," Corso read, quoting the commissioner’s letter that said the district had "demonstrated and sustained sufficient fiscal stability" and no longer carried a balance on a state aid advance.
The letter said the state monitor’s authority had been delegated by statute to oversee fiscal recovery after the…
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