Two Public Forums On Lacey Superintendent Search Slated For This Week

Lacey Township school district officials are giving residents a chance to have their say about what qualities they want in a new schools superintendent.

Participants and stakeholders in the school district’s Strategic Plan are invited to provide their input at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26 and Thursday, Oct. 29 in the Lacey Township High School’s lecture hall.

The Southern Regional Institute and Education Technology - the firm hired by the Board of Education to conduct the search - will be on hand to discuss the school district’s direction and the selection of a new superintendent.

The Lacey Board of Education recently authorized spending up $7,500 to conduct a superintendent search to replace Sandra Anthony. A previous board in 2014 gave Anthony - who was known as Sandra Brower then - a notice of non-renewal of her contract.

Anthony was suspended without pay in June 2013, after she was indicted by a Monmouth County grand jury and charged with second-degree official misconduct, third-degree hindering apprehension and fourth-degree obstruction during the time she was assistant superintendent in Wall Township.

Anthony was reinstated in February 2014, after the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office dropped all charges. She was entitled to back pay from the time she was suspended. Her salary is $167,500 a year.