School News

NEW PRINCIPAL – Edgar Vazquez speaks to the Board of Education after being named new principal at Pine Grove Manor Elementary School. Edgar Vazquez was named the new Pine Grove Manor principal by the Board of Education at its June 19 meeting. A 7-year veteran of the school district, Vazquez for the past two years has been the Vice-Principal at …

GRADUATION SPEAKERS – Valedictorian Semra Suslu and Salutatorian Ansh Parikh during the CJCP graduation ceremony on June 18. Central Jersey College Preps’ Class of 2025 was told to be “leaders with integrity” at its graduation ceremony on June 18 at the Mettlers Road campus. The graduates heard from Jeannine LaRue, who during her career has been an elected official, lobbyist, …

CELEBRATING STUDENTS – Nikkii Tatum, who runs the Road To Success program, said this year’s class may have the most graduates in its history. Students who completed the alternative high school program “Road To Success” were honored June 17 with an awards ceremony and party. The program’s mission is to, “prepare enrolled students to graduate high school and be college …

POET LAUREATE – Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, reads from her book at the June 10 publishing party. Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, was all smiles June 10 in the high school library. Dumbuya, a Senior, welcomed guests to the publishing party of her book, “A Bouquet of Verses,” an anthology of poems written …

Central Jersey College Prep (CJCP) announced that for the fifteenth straight school year, 100 percent of its senior class will be graduating on time this Spring and that every member of the Class of ‘25 has also been accepted to a college or university next fall, continuing an unprecedented senior class streak for CJCP which began in 2011.   This …

The Franklin High School Class of 2025’s Salutatorian and Valedictorian were named June 6 at the annual Senior Awards Night ceremony. During the evening, thousands of dollars in scholarships were announced, as were the winners of various academic honors. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter …

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Schiro Withanachchi, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Rutgers University – Camden, speaks to the TEECS Class of 2025 at their June 5 graduation. The world needs scientists, but it also needs leaders who care, the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School Class of 2025 was told at its graduation ceremony on June 5. Speaking to the …

HONORING EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS – Rebekah Solomon, principal at Franklin Middle School – Sampson G. Smith Campus speaks about her school’s educators being honored. Twenty teachers and teachers’ aides were honored June 5 as the best in the district at the annual Educators of the Year Breakfast, held at the Imperia by Dhaba on Easton Avenue. Each of the District’s 10 …

TALKING FINANCES – Parents listen to strategies to affording college costs during the College STEADY program at Sampson G. Smith school on June 3. An inaugural college exposure fair drew about 200 middle school students and their parents to Franklin Middle School – Sampson G. Smith campus on June 3. The fair, called College R.E.A.D.Y., was designed by school administration …

Franklin High School student Hayagreev Shankar Karthik is one of more than 2,900 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities, announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Shankar Karthik’s scholarship was financed by Rutgers University, where physics is the planned course of study. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …