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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. Add that to the approximately $55,000 payout given to former Superintendent Edward Seto, and the total …

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 …

Board of Education vice president Eva Nagy said the district has been promised at least $3.9 million in grants for the proposed $85 million referendum projects. An $85 million referendum that would result in a new elementary school and a reconfiguration of the Pre-K to 8th Grade schools could be held in September, now that state grant money has been …

Interim schools Superintendent Eveny Pagan said the administration needed to get more information for the Board of Education before it could take a vote on a proposal to privatize paraprofessionals. An expected vote to privatize the school district’s 123 paraprofessionals was put off Feb. 20 by the Board of Education. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …

Paraprofessional Monica Espinosa speaks against privatization. School district teachers’ aides showed up in force at the Feb. 17 Board of Education meeting to tell the board just what they thought of yet another proposal to outsource their jobs. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …

Left to right: School district business administrator John Calavano, school board attorney Robert M. Tosti, school board president Julia Presley at the Jan. 31, 2014 special meeting. Board of Education president Julia Presley on at least eight occasions consulted with the board attorney on the former schools Superintendent’s separation agreement that is predicated on the withdrawal of ethics complaints against …

Former schools Superintendent Edward Seto will be paid nearly $55,000 and has agreed to waive ethics complaints against the Board of Education leadership in a separation agreement approved Jan. 31 by the school board. The board met in a special session to approve the agreement, accept Seto’s resignation and appoint Eveny Pagan as the interim Superintendent. Don’t Miss Out! No …

Brian Bonanno, the school district’s manager of administrative services, told the Board of Education Jan. 30 that it could save $675,000 by privatizing paraprofessionals. On the night the Board of Education was told it could save at least $675,000 a year by privatizing its paraprofessionals, one board member said the district should also outsource substitute teachers. Don’t Miss Out! No …