Kwame Morton, an administrator in the Cherry Hill school district for 16 years, has been selected to become its new superintendent.
If approved, Morton would succeed Joseph Meloche who stepped down in July after leading the state’s 11th-largest school system for eight years to became superintendent in theMorton could face some tough financial decisions ahead for the district. Morton and board President Miriam Stern have sounded an alarm that Cherry Hill may have a $6.9 million cut in state aid for the 2024-2025 school year.
“We are shocked that the state, having increased our aid consistently during the last four years after decades of staggering and harmful underfunding, has cut our aid to less than what we received in 2022-2023,” Stern and Morton wrote in a letter to the community. “This decrease in funding is undeserved considering our steady enrollment.”
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