By Max Pizarro

MONTCLAIR – Bill Batkay stood among the public sector union throng that welcomed Montclair University alumnus Barbara Buono back to school.

“You look the same,” said Batkay, who said he believes he taught Buono, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, American Government.

Sen. Barbara Buono
Sen. Barbara Buono accepts AFTNJ endorsement for Governor

The school, though, didn’t look the way it does when Buono went here in the early 1970s.

“It’s changed,” she said, standing amid the campus finery.

Batkay was part of the backdrop of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) New Jersey who cheered and whooped it up for Buono as they formally gave her their endorsement.

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