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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. LeRoy Seitz will take over the helm on March 29, the day after current …

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 …

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 …