{"id":11394,"date":"2017-08-01T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:02:31","slug":"teacher-pre-school-owner-labor-activist-file-to-run-for-brick-boe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/teacher-pre-school-owner-labor-activist-file-to-run-for-brick-boe\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher, Pre-School Owner, Labor Union Official File to Run for Brick BOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3140\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3140\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Township Board of Education\/Schools (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Township Board of Education\/Schools (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>Three candidates, including one incumbent, have filed to run for two available seats on the Brick Township Board of Education in November.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was the filing deadline for candidates in the election, which is considered nonpartisan (though candidates are often aligned with a political party).<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent board member John Barton, whose first term is up at the end of the year, is seeking re-election. Barton, a teacher, lives on Lake Shore Drive.<\/p>\n<p>His is being opposed by Jessica Clayton, who runs a pre-school from her home on Altier Avenue. Clayton is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gp.org\/jessica_clayton\">aligned with the Green Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Maria E. Foster of Commodore Drive, who is also\u00a0Director of Government and Community Affairs at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 711, is seeking a board seat. Foster was also a Democratic <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmua.com\/about_us\/foster.asp\">appointee to the Board of Commissioners<\/a> of the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of Barton and fellow board member Sharon Cantillo expire at the end of the year. Cantillo did not file to run for re-election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/teacher-pre-school-owner-labor-activist-file-to-run-for-brick-boe\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three candidates, including one incumbent, have filed to run for two available seats on the Brick Township Board of Education in November. Monday was the filing deadline for candidates in the election, which is considered nonpartisan (though candidates are often aligned with a political party). Incumbent board member John Barton, whose first term is up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,24,3020,46,3019],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-board-of-education","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-jessica-clayton","tag-john-barton","tag-maria-e-foster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2XM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}