{"id":183659,"date":"2026-05-04T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:15:07","slug":"superintendent-search-on-slate-for-bensalem-special-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183659\/","title":{"rendered":"Superintendent Search On Slate For Bensalem Special Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Bensalem Township School Board committee will hold a special community meeting on Tuesday night to discuss its budget deficit and search for a new schools superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>The school board&#8217;s Public Relations and Community Outreach Committee will hold the community meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Bensalem High School in the A Wing.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will discuss the $2.7 million deficit in the 2026-2027 school budget, which the school board will vote on at its meeting on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will also discuss the search to replace longtime Schools Superintendent Samuel Lee, who resigned in the wake of the school district&#8217;s &#8220;severe financial crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/interim-bensalem-schools-superintendent-thrust-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interim Schools Superintendent Victoria Velazquez.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>School board members are encouraging the public to come to the meeting on Tuesday to hear about the process and community involvement opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Bensalem Township School Board committee will hold a special community meeting on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-183659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}