School chief named in Pemberton Twp.
Michael Gorman, 53, has been the superintendent in Glassboro for 5 years. His new pay: $172,500.
The Glassboro school superintendent, Michael R. Gorman, is switching hats.
He is leaving the Gloucester County district after five years to become the schools chief in Pemberton Township, Burlington County.
The Pemberton Township school board appointed Gorman on Thursday to oversee the 5,300-student district. He succeeds Mark Cowell, who retired in September. An interim superintendent has been running the district while the board sought a permanent chief.
Gorman, 53, of Pennsville, Salem County, is expected to start in August. He will be paid $172,500, nearly $40,000 more than he would receive in Glassboro.
"This is an incredible opportunity and in many ways, I feel like I've been preparing for this role my entire life," Gorman said in a statement yesterday.
Pemberton Township has 11 schools and is one of nine special-needs, or Abbott, districts in South Jersey.
An educator for more than 30 years, Gorman previously was a deputy superintendent at Salem County Vocational Technical Schools in Woodstown and a high school principal in Pennsville.
He is credited with improving state standardized test scores in Glassboro and correcting a disproportionality in the number of black males who were classified as special education.
The Glassboro school board president, Linda Emory, said the board would name an interim superintendent for the district, which has about 2,400 students. A special executive session has been called for June 4.
In April, the board gave Gorman a three-year contract renewal that paid him $133,407 annually.