Schools
Cranbury Board of Ed to Add Section of First Grade
Snow also pushes the last day of school back, to June 21.
At Tuesday night’s meeting, the announced that next year’s budget will include funding to allow for a third section of first grade.
According to the board, enrollment in Cranbury School’s first grade has increased throughout this year, and a third first-grade section will help keep class sizes small. Interim Chief School Administrator Carol Malouf has also budgeted full-year art programs for kindergarten, first, and second grades next year.
“Part of the reason we’re in better shape with staffing is because we’ve had three seasoned teachers retire and that has freed up a little bit of money [that allowed us] to make these accommodations,” she explained.
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Board President Lynne Schwartz, who also serves as one of the board’s liaisons to the Township Committee, said that the first meeting with Mayor Winthrop Cody and Committeeman Dan Mulligan was productive.
“Bill [Schraudenbach] and I were energized by the collaboration we felt with the Township Committee,” Schwarz said. “It feels like the way it should be.”
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During her report on the facilities committee, board member Evelyn Spann mentioned that the Cranbury Township Board of Recreation gave a proposal suggesting that a track be laid at the school.
“Unfortunately the school doesn’t have available land to do it, but we do think it’s a great project and we want to support them. We’re going to give them a liaison so that we’re constantly in contact and can see how [the project] moves forward.”
The Board of Recreation has agreed to give the a tennis backboard that can be hung vertically to allow an individual to practice alone.
The board also approved adjustments to the 2010-2011 school calendar caused by days lost due to inclement weather. The new calendar pushes the school year’s last day to Tuesday, June 21, which, along with June 20, is scheduled to be an early dismissal day. Cranbury’s eighth-grade graduation will take place on one of these two days, but is dependant on ’s graduation schedule. Students who graduate from the Cranbury School move on to PHS.
