Upper Township Names Representatives to Ocean City BOE as Strife Between School Districts Continues: Report

Kristie Brown-Chisholm, Bill Holmes, and Fran Newman will continue to represent Upper Township on the Ocean City Board of Education as litigation between the school districts continues into 2016, the Ocean City Gazette reports.

All three Upper Township school board members also represented the district on the Ocean City School Board last year. The Upper Township board decided at its reorganization meeting on Monday night that it was important to maintain the same representation, according to the report.

Upper Township has asked for a declaratory judgement from State Commissioner of Education David Hespe over claims that the Ocean City Board of Education is excluding Upper Township representatives from committee meetings, a claim Ocean City has denied, according to the report.

Upper Township claims 52.4 percent of the student body at Ocean City High School is made up of Upper Township students, giving it the right to have three members on the board under state statute, according to the report.

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