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Schools Superintendent Edward Seto was directed by the Board of Education to include privatizing paraprofessionals in his office’s search for budget savings. Schools Superintendent Edward Seto on Dec. 19 was given the green light to study privatizing the school district’s 125 paraprofessionals next year. The approval came in the form of a Board of Education resolution which also included direction …

Board of Education member Richard Seamon said it does not look as though the district’s proposed referendum can be held until at least September 2014. It’s looking as though the school district’s planned $85 million referendum won’t be held until at least September. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

Schools Superintendent Edward Seto. For the third time in three years, schools Superintendent Edward Seto has suggested privatizing the district’s paraprofessionals. 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 the Eight Villages. But we can only …

John NortonPhoto: N.J. State Police The former assistant principal of Elizabeth Avenue Elementary School was going to be fired had he not resigned on Dec. 8, according to the district schools Superintendent. 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 …

Franklin schools Superintendent Edward Seto, left, and school board president Julia Presley have been at the center of recent school board controversies. Deep divisions among groups of members and a feeling of overall failure permeate the 2013 self-evaluations completed earlier this year by the Board of Education members. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you …

Gail Reicheg, the school district’s personnel director, talks to the Board of Education about substitute teacher pay at the Nov. 14 work session. The school district administration will not support a requested reversal of a pay cut instituted this year for substitute teachers, schools Superintendent Edward Seto said Nov. 14. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …

Substitute teacher Jessie Lindsay of Somerset speaks to the school board about the substitutes’ pay cut. Pressured by two months of lobbying and calls to organize, the Board of Education will take another look at a pay cut that has angered the district’s substitute teachers. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of …

The school district is preparing to embark on an $8.4 million project predicted to save about 30 percent of the district’s energy costs. An “Energy Savings Improvement Program” was approved by the board at its Sept. 26 meeting. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …

Schools Superintendent Edward Seto, left, and buildings and grounds supervisor Rick Goetz enter one of the new portable classrooms at Sampson G. Smith School. Teachers are busy getting their classrooms ready in the 12 new portable units in place throughout the school district. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

The Sampson G. Smith Intermediate School would be realigned to a middle school under the school board’s proposed referendum. The Board of Education is preparing to “market” to residents a proposed $85 million referendum which would result in a new elementary school and a realignment of elementary and middle school grade configurations. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering …