School Board

DELIVERING THE STATS – Nicholas Solomon, the school district’s Director of School Management, reviews the Student Safety Data report for the first half of the 2023-24 school year. Township students are below average when it comes to being “written up” for disciplinary incidents, the Board of Education was recently told. Students in the elementary, middle and high schools received fewer …

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 …

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 …

The Board of Education approved nearly $57 million worth of contracts for goods and services at its April 24 meeting. Contracts awarded were: A professional service contract with A Caring Connection to provide 1:1 Nursing, Substitute Nurses and Certified Nursing Assistant services for the 2024-2025 school year in the amount of $75,000.  The additional amount of $50,000 needed for Nursing …

A $209 million general fund budget for Fiscal Year 2026 was approved April 24 by the Board of Education. The spending plan is powered by a tax levy of $179,484,985. This is not the budget originally introduced by the Board in March. That budget included $6 million in cuts, which would have meant an end to after-school bussing and the …

EXPLAINING THE PROGRAM – Schools Superintendent John Ravally explains why the school district needs to increase spending by $11 million at the April 10 Board of Education meeting. An additional $11 million in spending for Fiscal Year 2026 approved April 10 by the Board of Education will allow the reinstatement of many line items that had previously been cut from …

Contracts for goods and services totaling $3,185,776 were approved by the Board of Education at its March 18 meeting. The contracts approved were: An agreement between Franklin Township Police Department, Jobs4Blue and Franklin Township Board of Education, for the period of September 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025, not to exceed the amount of $1,119,448 for all Franklin Township Public …

EXPLAINING THE NUMBER – District Business Administrator Stephen Fried explains the preliminary Fiscal Year 2026 budget calculations at the March 18 Board of Education meeting. About $6 million in necessary reductions included in the preliminary Fiscal Year 2026 budget will impact school district programs and, to a lesser extent, staff, schools Superintendent John Ravally told the Board of Education at …

INTERIM ONCE AGAIN – Kelley Guerrero speaks at the March 18 Board of Education meeting after she was named interim Principal at Pine Grove Manor Elementary School. As she did just three months earlier, Kelley Guerrero found herself in front of the Board of Education on March 18, thanking them for naming her the interim principal of a district school. …

BUDGET NEWS – Schools Superintendent John Ravally speaks about the challenges the District faces in creating the Fiscal Year 2026 budget at the February 27 Board of Education meeting. The school district is facing a certain 3 percent reduction in state aid and an uncertain amount of federal aid in the run-up to creating the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. Figures …