Middletown Township Public School District Board of Education

8 meetings on our record, 4 of them from the past year and 4 with unconfirmed dates · 8,895 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Sep 29, 2026: Work session, 2 h 56 min
Newest meeting we have: Sep 29, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Chris Aveta, Board President · Frank Capone, Board Vice President · Joan Minnuies, Board Member · Caterina Skalaski, Board Member · Mark Soporowski, Board Member · Jacqueline Tobacco, Board Vice President · Erin Torres, Board Member · Sara Weinstein, Board Member

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Work session · 2 h 56 minTuesday, September 29, 2026AI in schoolsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Joan Minnuies, Erin Torres, Deborah Wright

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Work session · 3 h 46 minTuesday, July 21, 2026Chronic absenteeismAI in schoolsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Joan Minnuies, Erin Torres, Sara Weinstein

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Work session · 3 h 59 minTuesday, June 23, 2026School closuresSpeakers: Chris Aveta, Joan Minnuies, Mark Soporowski, Erin Torres and 1 more

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Special meeting · 56 minTuesday, May 12, 2026Speakers: Joan Minnuies

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The board

Who talks on this board

We compare who talks only where members sat for 8 or more meetings on our record; this board has 4 from the past year on our record.

Runs the meetingChris AvetaBoard President · shown, not ranked1meeting where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 1 meeting

Members · listed by nameFrank CaponeBoard Vice President—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Joan MinnuiesBoard Member7meetings where we identified their voice1clipnamed at 7 meetings · 1 clip Caterina SkalaskiBoard Member—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Mark SoporowskiBoard Member2meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 2 meetings Jacqueline TobaccoBoard Vice President—Speaker naming for this board isn't confirmed yet—no clip yetWe can't yet tell who is speaking at this board's meetings Erin TorresBoard Member6meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 6 meetings Sara WeinsteinBoard Member5meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 5 meetings Deborah WrightBoard Member3meetings where we identified their voice—no clip yetnamed at 3 meetings

Meetings on our record

All 8 meetings on our record

Clips

What Joan Minnuies said on Jun 23, 2026

We have to build the trust back in this community. And you're right, I, I have no problem saying we have to fix our schools. We do. But we need money to do that.Joan MinnuiesBoard Member · Middletown Township Public School District Board of Education · Jun 23, 2026Watch the full meeting from 3:26:22

On the map · Phones in school

July 21, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

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Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment13%6%–22%

Budget and finance8%3%–17%

Safety and discipline0%0%–1%

Ceremony and recognition0%0%–1%

The two readers didn’t agree on 29% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 8 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 8; 8 had at least one.

9 speakers5 speakers5.6 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 8 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Sep 29	Jul 21	Jun 23	May 12
Joan Minnuies	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present
Deborah Wright	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Chris Aveta	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Frank Capone	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded
Caterina Skalaski	Present	Present	Present	Present
Mark Soporowski	Present	Present	Present	Present
Jacqueline Tobacco	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded
Erin Torres	Present	Present	Present	Present
Sara Weinstein	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3410110 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district