SPECIAL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT TO APPROVE NEW HIRES

Reminder, the Board of Education meets in a special session tonight at 8:15 p.m. at the board offices, 525 Academy St.

The agenda, found HERE, indicates they will approve a confidential settlement agreement with a student, but no details are available.

In addition, the district will approve the hiring of a new interim supervisor of English Language Arts, Melissa Butler, and a new Maplewood Middle School assistant principal, Dion Patterson. 

Both replace staffers who resigned.

Butler is an English instructor at South Orange Middle School, while Patterson comes from the Piscataway Public Schools. See background on him at his LinkedIn page HERE.