A surprisingly narrow vote securing Natalia Ioffe and Noemi Velazquez’s second consecutive year as Jersey City Board of Education president and vice president could be seen as an early crack in the armor of what the board hopes will be a year free of clashing personalities. Being the first meeting of the year, there’s optimism everyone will get along fine. Ioffe and Chris Tisdale were nominated for president, while Younass Barkouch and Noemi Velazquez were nominated for vice president. Board members voted, 5-4, to keep retain Ioffe and Velazquez, a first for the board since Sudhan Thomas was n…
