Montague NJ: Superintendent on leave sues board members
Timothy Capone, who has faced criticism by board members and parents for years, says he still does not know why he was placed on administrative leave.
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Timothy Capone, who has faced criticism by board members and parents for years, says he still does not know why he was placed on administrative leave.
Montague, a one-school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight, petitioned the state education commissioner in December 2019 for approval to end its relationship with High Point Regional, in Wantage, so it could go back to sending students in grades 9-12 to Port Jervis High School in New York. A subsequent lawsuit by Montague, filed December 2020, accused High Point of bad-faith obstruction of its petition, which was not ruled on and is now a dead issue. Montague's resolution directs its legal counsel to "immediately withdraw the board from the above-referenced actio...
New Jersey Herald MONTAGUE — Superintendent Timothy Capone's use of the school's Honeywell phone alert system and social media pages to criticize board members and even district parents is "a conversation that will be continued in executive session with lawyers present," said Board of Education President Barbara Holstein. Holstein said this after the board hosted a presentation on school board ethics by New Jersey School Boards Association representative Kathy Helewa. Capone, however, has since taken to social media where he again criticized the board member who first proposed that policy...