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Edward Potosnak III was selected April 25 to fill a vacated Board of Education seat. It took the Board of Education president to change her vote, but Home Street resident Edward Potosnak III was selected to fill the board’s vacant seat at an April 25 special meeting. Potosnak, who is also an alternate member of the township Planning Board, was …

Source4Teachers’ president, Kevin Bush, talks about the benefits his company will offer the school district’s substitute teachers staring next school year. The school district’s roughly 150 substitute teachers will be working for a Cherry Hill-based company starting next year, for a little more money and better benefits. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

In a fast meeting April 8, the Board of Education selected Illinois-based ECRA Group to lead a search for the new schools Superintendent. The company, which has an office in Jersey City, will charge the district an $18,500 basic consultation fee for the search, plus expenses. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth …

Mercy Transportation Co. is in the process of selling some of its school district routes to Montauk Transit. A New York-based bus company that took over most of the school district’s bus routes has agreed to take on some more. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin …

LeRoy Seitz of Long Branch was named interim schools Superintendent March 20 by the Board of Education. A 40-year educational veteran – and veteran of a very public dust-up with Gov. Chris Christie – was named interim schools Superintendent March 20 by the Board of Education. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth …

The Board of Education was told at its March 19 meeting that staff cuts would be necessary to fill a budget gap if substitute teachers were not outsourced. Teacher and paraprofessional layoffs and a slight property tax increase are in the offing under a $142 million preliminary 2014-2015 school year operating budget approved March 19 by the Board of Education. …

Former schools Superintendent Edward Seto at his last Board of Education meeting, Jan. 29, 2014. The Board of Education paid its attorney nearly $20,000 for legal work connected with negotiating with the former schools Superintendent to leave his position before his contract ran out. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information …

School district business administrator John Calavano said the district did not receive funding for all the referendum-related grants for which it applied because the state could not fund all the applications it received. With nearly $4 million guaranteed for the proposed $85 million school referendum eyed for September, the Board of Education Feb. 27 approved applications for more than $79.7 …

Interim schools Superintendent Eveny Pagan said that outsourcing the district’s paraprofessionals is no longer on the table for the 2014-2015 school year, but that other staff reductions “are still in the equation.” The school district is no longer considering outsourcing its 123 paraprofessionals as a means to bridge a $1.7 million budget gap, but it has not ruled out some …

Board of Education member Robert Trautmann submitted his resignation on Feb. 24. Robert Trautmann, a Board of Education member in the middle of his first term, has resigned. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving …