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State fiscal monitor Lester Richens has overruled the board of education and re-appointed all tenured and non-tenured faculty and administrators in the school district as recommended by the superintendent.

“Please be advised that I am overriding the vote of the Asbury Park Board of Education on resolution number 1 on page B1 that appeared on the board agenda on May 9,” Richens said in an email today. “By this action, I am approving the reappointment list as recommended by the superintendent.”

A more detailed memo on Richens’s reasons for overruling the decision will follow, he said in the email.

At the board of education meeting on May 9, the board was one vote shy of approving the renewal list, which had been recommended by Superintendent Denise Lowe. Richens had said he would issue his decision today on whether to overrule that vote.

Board member Angela Ahbez-Anderson had moved to table the vote on four people on the list — two tenured, two non-tenured — until a future meeting so they could be voted on separately. This motion did not garner enough votes to pass, so those four staff members will be renewed.

The re-appointment list contains tenured and non-tenured teachers and administrators in the district, although the list has not been made public. At a recent meeting, employees on the list were identified by numbers instead of their names. For the full story on the vote Wednesday night, click here.

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