Shared Superintendency Cuts Costs, Helps Meet New Regs
Superintendent Scott Oswald says that sharing administrative responsibility for the Oaklyn as well as the Collingswood school districts would help both meet new state regulations.
Last year, when the Collingswood board of education proposed sharing a superintendent with the Oaklyn school district, the measure fell flat. Without a guarantee of the number of hours per week whoever held the position would spend in their district, Oaklyn, which already sends its students to Collingswood High School, balked. “Things just didn’t really come together on that front,” says Collingswood Superintendent Scott Oswald. What’s changed in the year since? For starters, a number of new regulations have been issued by the state that require serious technical skill to implement. These include the digitally based PARCC assessment, which will replace pencil-and-paper standardized testing with software. Along with that are the Effective …
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