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Public commenters press Hillside board on tutoring, discipline and insurance; board extends comment time
Summary
Students and parents urged the board to restore high-school tutoring and raised discipline and communication concerns; an insurance broker urged the district to re-market stop-loss coverage; the board extended public-comment time and later voted to reconvene in closed session.
The Hillside Board of Education opened a public-comment period that included student requests for tutoring, a parent's sustained grievance about discipline and communication, and an insurance broker's proposal to seek savings on stop-loss coverage.
Megan Dorsonville, a Hillside High School senior and recent National Honor Society inductee, said more than 100 students had signed a petition asking the board to "reconsider" tutoring at the high school and asked that services be restored before winter break. "We are respectfully asking for you to reconsider this issue and hope that it can be solved by the time we come back from winter break," she said. Superintendent Glover responded that tutoring had not been stopped and that tutoring "will be re-begin…
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