Asbury Park- Educational News

          As I have been researching Asbury Park I was very impressed with the High School, its infrastructure is beautiful. It is nicer than some of the other high schools I have seen in much wealthier districts. It is a large school surrounded by gardens, and has tall Roman sculptural columns, very expensive looking. Another new aspect of the school is their football field. It is all new, large, colorful, and beautiful. A few weeks ago as I searched for articles written about the educational system in the town I came across many postings discussing how Asbury Park spent a large amount of money in per pupil expenditures, about $35,000 compared to other towns who have more students and receive less money. Then I looked at their results and just as those postings had described, the test results were disappointing. So where is all of this money going ?  From what I saw it might be going into making the infrastructure look appealing and pretty, because the testing results are remaining mostly constant. Then I just read on the town's website that they are looking for a new superintendent, it is reported that they notified the current one her contract would not be renewed after this year, could it be because of  these choices ? Could she have done something to improve the educational system, and could those choices have helped increase the test scores ? I would hope so, and hope that the next superintendent makes the right choices for the students.