June 12, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 5 Glen Rock The Glen Rock Public School District has been designated “high performing” after undergoing the New Jersey Department of Education Quality Single Accountability Continuum performance review. Glen Rock Superintendent of Schools Dr. Paula Valenti received official notification on May 30 from Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gantwerk, Division of Student and Field Services. “Everyone who assisted in the preparation of the State designates district as ‘high performing’ QSAC review is to be congratulated on this accomplishment,” said Dr. Valenti. “I am so impressed by the teamwork in the district.” Glen Rock Board of Education President Sheldon Hirschberg agreed. “This is really a confirmation that all of the hard work and good, intelligent things the entire staff does on a regular basis have been recognized by the people who monitor us!” Glen Rock’s Republican council incumbents Mary Jane Surrago and Mike O’Hagan received 266 votes and 246 votes, respectively, in the June 4 primary. Democratic write-in borough council candidate Amy Martin received 85 votes and Sean Brennan received 82. The four candidates will now vie for the two available council seats in the November general election. Brennan, who has lived in Glen Rock for 13 years and has two children, and Martin, an actress/director who is active in the Coleman School Home and School Association, did Voters endorse council candidates not file in time to appear on the ballot, but announced their write-in candidacy in May. Eleanor Hahn, granddaughter of former Independent Mayor Richard Hahn, received two write-in votes. Democrats in previous elections have won a number of seats on the official ballot, and at one time held three council seats. The voter turnout in the June 4 primary was 522 voters out of the 8,594 registered voters in Glen Rock. J. KOSTER Based upon the QSAC performance review, NJDOE Commissioner Christopher Cerf has placed the district on a continuum in five areas: instruction and program, fiscal management, operations, personnel and governance. Glen Rock satisfied at least 80 percent of the weighted indicators in each of the five areas of the QSAC review process. Commissioner Cerf will recommend to the State Board of Education that Glen Rock be certified as providing a thorough and efficient system of education, for a period of three years or until the next QSAC review. The QSAC placement results include a score of 96 percent in instruction and program, and scores of 100 percent in fiscal management, governance, operations, and personnel. Glen Rock Board of Education incumbents Sheldon Hirschberg, Carlo Sella III, and Sanjiv Ohri will be facing no opponents other than possible write-ins. The three trustees were the only candidates to file for the trio of seats that will be available in the November general election. Board President Sheldon Hirschberg, an executive and former local merchant, and his two fellow incumbents were able to keep their promise of a zero-increase school budget this year, and all three enjoy the respect of the school sys- Incumbents file for school board tem’s administrative workers. Sella is a computer firm executive with a long family history of service to Glen Rock and two college degrees, one from Lehigh and one from FDU. Ohri is a project manager for a financial firm with one college degree earned in India and another from Iona College. J. KOSTER