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Approximately 48 percent of the school district’s teachers, administrators and support staff have self-reported that they have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, a district official said on August 20. Of the 666 people who responded to a district survey – which was sent to 1,250 teachers, administrators and support staff – 604 of them reported being vaccinated against the …

Nine people, including two incumbents, are running for three open Board of Education seats in the November election. The incumbents running to retain their seats are Laurie Merris of Wilson Road and Pat Stanley of Hudson Court. Current school board member Ed Potosnak, whose term also expires at the end of the year, is running for Township Council on the …

Torrie Rumph-Hurd is the new principal of Franklin Middle School – Hamilton Street campus. A veteran district administrator was named as the new principal for Franklin Middle School – Hamilton Street Campus, at the Board of Education’s July 22 meeting. Torrie Rumph-Hurd was named to fill the position vacated by Nicholas Solomon, who last month was named as the new …

Lanise Stevens of Johns Hopkins University speaks to Board of Education members at the July 15 meeting. Continuing to protect students and staff against Covid-19 and eliminate “systemic racism and lingering white supremacy” from the district are two of the goals set July 15 by the Board of Education. The Board meets each July to review progress on goals during …

Newly minted Franklin High School principal Nicholas Solomon, center, with his wife, Rebekah and son, Isiah, after his appointment at the June 16 school board meeting. Franklin Township native son Nicholas Solomon was named the new Franklin High School principal by the Board of Education at its June 16 meeting. Solomon, a 20-year veteran of the school district, assumes his …

FHS principal Frank Chmiel, seen here in a screenshot of a video he made in 2020, will most likely be leaving to become principal at Princeton High School. Update: The Princeton Board of Education formally appointed Frank Chmiel as its new high school principal at its April 27 meeting. Chmiel will start the $164,000 position on July 1. In a …

Franklin Middle School’s Hamilton Street campus will switch to remote-learning only April 22 after the coronavirus recently affected six staff members. Three staff members “in a relatively short period of time” tested positive for the virus, and three more are in quarantine due to exposure to the virus, schools Superintendent John Ravally said in a letter to the school community. …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally, pictured, and Assistant Superintendent Dan Loughren wrote a letter to parents April 20 concerning the guilty verdicts in the trial of a White former police officer for the killing of a Black man. (File photo). The school district’s top administrators on April 20 weighed in on the multiple guilty verdicts against a former Minneapolis police offer …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally, center, co-authored a letter to parents with Assistant Superintendent Daniel Loughran calling on township residents to reject hate. The killing of six Asian women and two others in Atlanta on March 16 has spurred the top two school district administrators to speak up. In a letter to parents posted on the district’s web site, school Superintendent …

If the grant is approved, the health center could open in time for the 2021-2022 school year. A partnership that could lead to a school-based, community health center was approved by the Board of Education at its March 17 meeting. The Board approved the partnership with Dover-based Zufall Health to provide health services for students, their families and the general …