Board of Education Taxes

The school district’s 15 or so substitute paraprofessionals were privatized at the Aug. 20 Board of Education meeting. The move is not a first step in privatizing all the district’s paraprofessionals, district representatives said. The move came in the form of an amendment to the contract the district has with Source4Teachers, through which it privatized the district’s substitute teachers last year. Privatizing …

A $160 million spending plan carrying a 2.6 percent tax hike for the 2015-16 school year was unanimously approved May 7 by the Board of Education. The budget carries with it a total school portion tax rate increase of about 4 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, from $1.43 to $1.47 per $100. That translates to a $163.95 increase in …

John A. Ravally was unanimously approved as the district’s new schools Superintendent at the Board of Education’s May 7 meeting. Ravally, currently the superintendent in the Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head school districts, will start his new post on July 1. His contract with Franklin runs through June 30, 2020. After his appointment, Ravally thanked the board and said he was …

John A. Ravally is expected to be appointed the new schools Superintendent at the Board of Education’s May 7 meeting. Ravally’s salary will be the state-mandated cap of $177,500, which is the base $175,000, plus $2,500 because the district has a high school, said board president Ed Potosnak. Ravally was most recently schools Superintendent for the Point Pleasant Beach school district, …

Contracts worth more than $107,000 were approved April 23 by the Board of Education. The contracts included: Elementary school schedule analyses for $22,500. Use agreement for the College Avenue and Cook/Douglass Recreation Center pools at Rutgers, for $7,569.25. Internet Policy Manual services from the New Jersey Schoo Boards Association for $2,500. Special education document scanning and microfilming services from AccuScan Digital Archival …

Updated: Here are the candidates for the open Board of Education seat: John Kinghorn, Weston Road Laurie Merris, Wilson Road Joshua Ruszkiewicz, Fir Court Richard Seamon, Rue Chagall C. Kelly Zehr, Ari Drive. The candidates will be interviewed by the board during a special meeting at 7 p.m. on April 13. Original story: Applications for the Board of Education seat vacated by Richard Arline are …

The school district will be able to enroll up to 90 more general- and special-education students in its Pre-Kindergarten programs. Interim schools Superintendent Lee Seitz said at the Jan. 22 Board of Education meeting that additional federal and local money has been found to fund the limited expansion of the program for the remainder of the school year. Pre-K programs …

An $85 million referendum that will result in a new elementary school and a realigned district was approved Dec. 9. The final tally was 1,953 “yes” votes to 1,463 “no” votes. Of the 16 voting districts established for special school elections, “no” votes outnumbered “yes” votes in only three: 2A and 2b, which includes several adult communities, and 6, which …

Parents and students from across the school district joined teachers and administrators Dec. 6 at Franklin High School for what was billed as a day of celebrating township schools. Punctuating the day, amid the student performances and curriculum demonstrations, were subtle and not-so-subtle messages in favor of the Dec. 9 construction referendum. Posters promoting the referendum were placed in the …

Township voters will decide Dec. 9 whether they’re willing to invest an average $166 a year in funding improvements to the school district’s buildings and realigning the elementary school grades. That’s the increase in yearly school-portion property tax bills estimated by school officials if the roughly $85 million referendum is approved. The figure is based on the average residential assessment …