I am Elisabeth Ginsburg, president of the Glen Ridge Board of Education, a job I have held for past ten years.  I am also a Vice President of the Garden State Coalition of Schools.  “…New Jersey’s school districts are more than bureaucratic entities; they are educational ecosystems originally created by the New Jersey Legislature to educate all the state’s children.  Many of New Jersey’s districts function well, but some do not.  Unbalancing all of them, as S1455 currently proposes, will not improve any of them.  Common sense dictates that making one part of an educational ecosystem—in this case individual building principals—stronger than the other parts, necessarily makes those other parts—teachers, superintendents and local boards—weaker…”