Perth Amboy Schools Circus Update
So what's new in Perth Amboy, The Reformiest District in New Jersey™?
The superintendent of the city's schools says that a board member is lying about where he lives, the most recent salvo in an ongoing public-education battle.Innocent until proven guilty? Meh...
Janine Caffrey said at a school board meeting Thursday night that the state is investigating whether Israel Varela lives on Lewis Street in the city or 40 miles away in Hunterdon County. School board members are required to live in the school district.
"He needs to resign," Caffrey said of Varela in an interview Friday. "He is a board member who is contributing nothing to this Board of Education other than creating a cloud of suspicion over it. He has been lying about his residence for three years." [emphasis mine]
Varela denies that he lives in Flemington, and said that the accusations are nothing more than political retribution, all because he won't "brown-nose" school
