Academic Officer's Contract Not Renewed By Brick Schools

When the 2015-16 Brick Township School year begins on July 1, Lorraine Morgan will no longer be employed by the school district.

Morgan’s name was not included on a list of non-tenured administrators whose contracts were approved for renewal by the Brick Township Board of Education on Thursday night at a raucous meeting that lasted until 1 a.m.

Morgan, who is the district’s academic officer, is the wife of Andrew Morgan, who was arrested earlier this month in what prosecutors say was a scheme to provide free day care for the grandson of Superintendent Walter Uszenski.

Lorraine Morgan usually attends the school board meetings, but she was not present Thursday night, which was the first regular school board meeting since the arrests.

“She was not recommended for renewal,” Richard Caldes, the interim superintendent of schools, told a resident who asked about her status. That resident noted that her photo and email address are no longer on the school district’s website.

A check of the site showed the page that used to list the top administrators with their photos -- including Uszenski, Morgan and James Edwards, the district’s business administrator -- has been taken down.

Lorraine Morgan was hired in September 2013 on a year-to-year contract that was reapproved last year for the 2014-15 school year at a salary of $153,000. She had been the principal at Samuel E. Shull Middle School in Perth Amboy prior to being hired into the Brick school district, where her husband had been hired six months earlier.

Andrew Morgan worked for the Brick Township School District from March 2013 until he resigned on Dec. 31, 2013, as the interim director of special services for the Brick Township School District, which deals with special education.