District
worker seeks top job
Superintendent's position in
play.
Friday, June 17, 2005 • By KAT MAIN • The
Express-Times
INDEPENDENCE TWP. -- Great Meadows
Regional School District is one step closer to filling the
superintendent's slot left vacant a year and a half ago by
Tracey Severns.
Jason Bing, the district's director of
curriculum and special services, has stepped forward after
the school board offered the position to another candidate
who took a job elsewhere, according to interim
Superintendent James Alercia.
"After the board had gone through the
search, (Bing) realized maybe he would be the most
appropriate and qualified, being he knows the district well,
set the course for the district in area of curriculum and
has a vision for the district," Alercia said. "The board was
happy to receive his candidacy."
The public will have a chance to meet
Bing at 7:30 p.m. June 27, when he will give presentation
and take questions.
After the session, the board will conduct
its meeting. Alercia said he is not sure if the board will
make a decision that evening. If Bing is chosen for the
position, he will start in September, Alercia
said.
Before taking his job with the district,
Bing, 34, was a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher in North
Plainfield, N.J., and served as supervisor of elementary
curriculum in the Phillipsburg School District.
While in Phillipsburg, Bing said, he and
his team facilitated the writing of kindergarten through
fifth-grade curriculum, worked towards professional
development for staff and conducted staff
evaluations.
He said he was drawn to Great Meadows
after meeting former superintendent Severns and seeing her
passion for the district.
"It was a huge selling point for me," he
said.
Bing said the Great Meadows School
District was a big draw for him.
"They're a wonderful group of people," he
said. "It's very unique to see a staff and community that's
so involved. Every person you meet in the district is really
vested in what we're doing and working to make the learning
process even better.
Bing is a graduate of the University of
Massachusetts. He lives in Clinton, is not married and has
no children.
Reporter Kat Main can be reached at 908-475-8044 or by
e-mail at kmain@express-times.com.
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permission.
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