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Deptford board approves broad personnel slate for 2025-26 school year
Summary
The Board of Education of the Township of Deptford on Aug. 19 approved multiple resignations, hires, transfers, promotions and stipend assignments for the 2025-26 school year, including new Central Early Childhood hires and Spartan Care appointments. Motion carried 8-0.
The Board of Education of the Township of Deptford approved a comprehensive personnel package for the 2025-26 school year at its Aug. 19 meeting in Sewell.
Board member Justin Green moved the personnel motion, which was seconded by Board member Dan McCurdy and carried on a roll-call vote of 8-0. The package covered retirements and resignations, leaves of absence and revisions, staff transfers, dozens of new hires and promotions, stipend assignments and extracurricular/volunteer approvals.
Key personnel actions included the acceptance of multiple resignations and one retirement (examples listed in the agenda: Linda Mazzola, part-time paraprofessional, and Rebecca Singer, teacher), the hiring of teachers for Central Early Childhood Center (Caitlin Abare, Michelle Thompson, Matthew Czvornyek, Linda Kollar and others), and the approval of paraprofessionals, service aides and bus drivers for the district. The board also approved appointments to Spartan Care: Marie Morrison (effective Sept. 1, 2025) and two current district employees (Natori James and Natalie Valentin) as Spartan Care providers at $17.00 per hour, up to 25 hours per week.
The board set department-head stipends ($2,000) for the high school and middle school departments listed in the agenda and approved teacher-leader stipends including HIB specialists and new-teacher mentors across buildings. Professional development items approved included up to $15,000 for Central Early Childhood PD sessions and a $600 teacher-mentor training scheduled for Aug. 25, 2025.
The personnel motion consolidated many routine staffing items into a single approval; the board's roll call votes on personnel motions were unanimous among members present. No public comments on personnel were recorded at the meeting. The board proceeded to consider curriculum and student placement items later in the agenda.
