School Board

Michael Herman address the school board after being named vice principal of the Franklin High School 10th Grade. A former Franklin High School administrator has returned to the district as the vice principal of the school’s 10th Grade. Michael Herman was named to the $97,750 per year job at the Board of Education’s January 27 meeting. Herman was Dean of …

The Board of Education is poised to name Blair Wilson as the new Franklin High School head football coach. (File photo.) The Board of Education is poised to name Blair Wilson as the new Franklin High School head football coach, ending months of speculation about who will be given the top spot at the ailing football program. The Board’s personnel …

District students and staff either infected or in close contact with someone who is infected with the coronavirus would be able to return to school sooner, but with more restrictions, under updated Covid-19 protocols set to be voted on by the Board of Education at its January 27 meeting. The updated protocols come amid ever-increasing numbers of students and staff …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally explained the meeting resolution during the Board’s reorganization session. The remainder of Board of Education meetings for the 2021-22 school year will be held both virtually and in-person, the Board decided at its reorganization meeting. The Board held the hybrid meetings last year, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meetings were switched back to in-person …

The Board of Education held its annual reorganization meeting on January 6. Nancy LaCorte and Ardaman Singh retained their positions on the Board of Education at the January 6 Board reorganization meeting. LaCorte was re-elected president, and Singh was re-elected vice president. Newly elected Board members Dennis Hopkins and Sami Shaban, as well as re-elected member Laurie Merris, were also …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally talks about the safety upgrades the district has made over the past year or so. There will be an enhanced police presence at township schools on December 17, in light of a national social media challenge calling on students to cause violence in schools. There has been no credible threat identified in the district – or …

Cesar Rainho address the school board after he was named to his new position. The Board of Education welcomed the new head of the district’s arts programs at its December 16 meeting Cesar Rainho was named as Supervisor of Fine, Visual, Performing and Practical Arts at the meeting. He begins the $92,500 position on December 17, or soon thereafter, according …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally on December 14 sent a letter to parents delineating some of the steps the district has taken to ensure student safety. (File photo.) An online threat against a Franklin Middle School campus discovered the evening of December 14 – the second in a week – was deemed by township police to not be credible, a school …

Franklin Middle School – Sampson G. Smith campus principal Evelyn Rutledge, foreground, told parents that an “indirect” threat against the school was found to be not credible. (File photo). Township police are investigating an “indirect” threat made against Franklin Middle School’s Sampson G. Smith campus. The threat was found to be not credible, and did not interfere with the school …

Franklin Middle School football coach Blair Wilson, seen here after his team captured the 2019 Middle School Championship, is the pick of many members of the Franklin football community to become the new high school football head coach. Coaches, parents and players showed up en masse at the November 18 Board of Education meeting to lobby for their pick for …