{"id":25813,"date":"2025-11-05T03:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=25813"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:13:11","slug":"brick-school-board-candidates-separated-by-just-14-votes-one-winner-one-loser-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/11\/brick-school-board-candidates-separated-by-just-14-votes-one-winner-one-loser-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Incumbent, Newcomer Win Brick School Board Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25814\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE \u2013 Nov. 5, 2025:<\/strong> The winners of the Board of Education election are Michael A. Mastroserio, a current school administrator in Spotswood, who was the top vote-getter with 10,439 votes; and incumbent Fran DiBenedictis, who garnered 9,941 votes.<\/p>\n<p>While school board elections are technically nonpartisan in New Jersey, slates of candidates typically receiving backing from the Democrat and Republican parties. Mastroserio drew support from Democrats and DiBenedictis drew support from Republicans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25821\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"Screenshot\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Screenshot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25821\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25821\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-1024x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-1024x348.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-400x136.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-1536x522.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-2.11.37-PM-2048x696.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/11\/brick-school-board-candidates-separated-by-just-14-votes-one-winner-one-loser-clear\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE \u2013 Nov. 5, 2025: The winners of the Board of Education election are Michael A. Mastroserio, a current school administrator in Spotswood, who was the top vote-getter with 10,439 votes; and incumbent Fran DiBenedictis, who garnered 9,941 votes. While school board elections are technically nonpartisan in New Jersey, slates of candidates typically receiving backing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25814,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[15,13],"tags":[41,5381,4484,5526,5524,5527,5525],"class_list":["post-25813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","category-brick-schools","tag-board-of-education","tag-election-2025","tag-featured","tag-fran-dibenedictis","tag-michael-a-mastroserio","tag-nicole-orozco","tag-sergio-verdesco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brickboe_bg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6Il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813","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=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25823,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions\/25823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}