So, in the wake of Christie’s announcement a month ago, one of Anderson’s early meetings was at the downtown New Jersey Performing Arts Center restaurant with Joseph Del Grosso, the president of the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) who was reelected to his ninth term yesterday.
Anderson wouldn’t be interviewed for this article, but DelGrosso yesterday called the hour-long introduction a “cordial meeting, a good meeting. She’s certainly enthusiastic, I’ll say that.”
But he and others said there are a number of issues that will hit early and often, including his stalled teachers contract talks. But there are also looming budget deliberations, impending and controversial school consolidation plans and ongoing tensions over charter schools, to name just a few.
“My advice to her is you have a lot of legwork to do,” Del Grosso said. “If she doesn’t want to get lambasted, she’s going to have build bridges and get out there to talk to people.”
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