RED BANK: Borough schools leader Jared Rumage named Monmouth County Superintendent of the Year for 2023.

RED BANK: Superintendent asks council to oppose charter school renewal, citing a 'travesty' of segregative effects over a quarter-century.

RED BANK: Jared Rumage reflects on his first five years as schools superintendent, and makes a case for November's $6.75M referendum.

RED BANK: Schools superintendent Jared Rumage schedules first presentation on a $6.75 million referendum for Thursday evening.

RED BANK: Count Basie Fields bleachers replacement sails toward a final council vote, but questions about cost and state funding linger.

RED BANK: Borough Schools get some relief from bill aimed at restoring state aid cuts, but financial squeeze still causing pain.

RED BANK: School district again decries double whammy of state funding cuts and forking over millions to charter school.

RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.

RED BANK: Board of education bids goodbye to longtime member Ben Forest, who joins the council July 1, and welcomes new member.

RED BANK: Six teachers and support personnel earn New Jersey Department of Education honors.

RED BANK: New school resource officer is a "perfect fit," says chief: police department sees two officers retire this month.

RED BANK: Menna concludes record-setting combined terms as councilman and mayor. His successor will have to wait four more days to take up reins.

RED BANK: As borough school district welcomes students for new year, Rumage addresses security, preschool, enrollment and staffing.

RED BANK: Charter school parents press for return to a pre-pandemic "culture" amid canceled events and perceived lack of engagement.

RED BANK: Council tables plan to put armed police in the borough's primary and middle schools; quarrels over meeting-date change.

RED BANK: A plan to put a police representative in the primary and middle schools is up for approval by the council Wednesday night.

RED BANK:  Borough schools and police plan to roll out an armed school resource officer program to boost safety, McConnell says.

RED BANK: Still well below "adequacy" funding, school district keeps tax increase at two percent for second consecutive year, Rumage says.

RED BANK: Former business administrator Ziad Shehady and Councilwoman Kathy Horgan slated for Charter Study Commission interviews tonight.