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1 0 THE SUNDAY HOME NEWS NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 196T II I V. i-. mm NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-This Is the new Woodbrook Elementary School, which Is opening this year In the Stephen-ville section of Edison. The $630,000 facility, located off Park A venue near Woodbrook Farm, has 14 classrooms and a multN purpose room which can be converted to three additional class rooms.

It was designed by architect John MacWilliam of Metuchen. FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION This rendering, prepared the North Brunswick architectural firm of Eckert and Gatarx, deplete the exterior of the 12-classroom circular satellite build Ing which is to be constructed adjacent to James Madison School In Edison for special education classes. Edison Keeping Abreast of a Rising School Population Woodbridge. In these instances, the school system being assisted will reimburse the one helping it. And in some cases, where bus route's cannot be worked out to satisfy the needs of particular students, they will be given school bus tickets to ride on the Public Service Buses.

The maximum distance a child is permitted to be asked to walk on his way to or from a private or parochial school under the new law is miles. This means that if the child has to walk Vk miles from his home to meet the bus, he must be dropped off right at the school. If, for example, he walks one mile to meet the bus, he cannot be required to walk more than one-half mile from the point at which the bus drops him off to the school. There is a note of irony in this. The Board of Education and Ruggieri have been confronted by frequent and vigorous appeals from parents in various sections of Edison who feel strongly that their children should receive bus service to the public schools even if they live less than two miles from the schools.

But a state law which has existed considerably longer than the one covering public and private school busing holds that a child may not ride the buses if he lives within two miles of the school up to the ninth grade, or within 2'i miles of the school above the ninth grade. The $508,000 addition to Jefferson Junior High will Increase the size of its library and make possible a 48 per cent increase in student capacity for the entire school with its construction of ten classrooms and a faculty room. In the midst of developing plans to meet the rising enrollments in the public schools here and trying to make the curriculum keep pace with the needs of the school system, administrators have been confronted with the requirements of the private and parochial school busing bill this year. Richard W. Jago, assistant superintendent of schools, has been assigned by Ruggieri to draw up the routes and handle the planning details for providing bus service to those students whose parents request it.

An estimated 550 applications have come in and bids will be accepted shortly on the routes, one of which will be 22 miles long and will culminate in Plainfield after covering part of Wood-bridge and several sections of Edison. There are two steps which have been taken in planning tlie bus routes in such a way as to provide a maximum of service at a minimum of cost. One has been cooperation with school authorities in Piscataway and Woodbridge. Arrangements have been made for some buses primarily serving either or both of those communities to pick up also stu By WARREN JONES EDISON The pressure of keeping pace with the need for Increased facilities to accommodate mushrooming school enrollments has become practically a way of life for Superintendent of Schools Joseph M. Ruggieri and his staff.

This year the pattern remains unchanged, but the administrators like their counterparts throughout the state now have a new challenge: the complex maze of paperwork involved in meeting the new state law providing for free transportation for private and parochial school children. Edison's Board of Education, working in close cooperation with the Municipal Council, has been able to meet quite successfully the rising enrollment tide, but the pressure shows no signs of letting up. This year the new $650,000 Woodbrook Elementary School in the Stephenville section, off Park Avenue, will open for the first time. The completion of this 17-room facility marks the culmination of a $4 million building program which began in 1965. A new $2.9 million building program is already in the works, calling for additions to John P.

Stevens High School, Thomas Jefferson Junior High and James Madison Elementary School. Two Part Project The latter Is a two-part project, including an 18-room addition to the school's regular classroom facilities and a 12-room satellite addition for special education classes. The satellite will bring the community's special education program under one roof. The circular satellite, connected by a pathway to the main school building, is a novel plan developed by the North Brunswick architectural firm of Eckert and Gatarz. The satellite will be located 15 feet east of the main Madison School building and will include a multi-purpose room in its center.

This room will be constructed five feet higher than the other rooms in the satellite. The circular shape of the building will make it possible for every two classrooms to share lavatory facilities, a kitchen and glassed work area. The 18-room addition to the school's regular classroom facilities will increase its basic capacity from 360 students to about 830. The opening of Woodbrook would have probably resulted in a considerable easing of the crowded conditions at Oak Tree School, the principal school from which the Woodbrook enrollment will be drawn, had Oak Tree been located in the more completely de veloped southern portion of the community. But Oak Tree School is in the heart of the fastest growing residential portion of Edison and, as a result, the enrollment in its 18 classrooms will total more than 800 again this year, just about the same as it was last year.

This is a graphic example of how the Municipal Council and the Board of Education are managing to keep pace with the rising enrollments, but are finding it practically impossible to get very far ahead of the tide. Allen Puorro of Union will be the principal at Woodbrook. He is a graduate of Seton Hall University and Newark State College and is presently vice principal at Oak Tree School. Woodbrook School is a cinder-block, single-story building with a brick veneer finish. It was designed by Archiect John Mac-William of Metuchen and is located on a 24-acre tract near Woodbrook Farm.

It is expected to relieve somewhat crowded conditions at the James Monroe School, in addition to helping slightly the situation at Oak Tree. The school was built in connection with the bond issue which also permitted additions to Benjamin Franklin and Menlo Park Schools, along with construction of Herbert Hoover Junior High School in the Clara Barton section and the new Lindeneau School. The latter opened last September while Hoover Junior High opened early this year. Since the Board of Education several years ago reached the limit of its bonding capacity, the Municipal Council has made some of its bonding capacity available for school construction. The entire $4 million program begun in 1965 was financed in this manner, and the $2.9 million program now underway is being handled similarly.

Some observers have pointed out that having an appointed school board makes possible a closer working relationship with the municipal government than might be possible if the school board were an elected body. The addition being planned for J. P. Stevens High School is a annex which will include 34 classrooms, two industrial arts rooms, an art room, and a home economics room. It will increase the existing enrollment capacity from 1,050 to 1,800 which is the capacity of Edison High School.

The addition will be two-stories and will include five new science laboratories, giving Stevens High a total of 10. The addition is expected to cost $1.4 million. dents in Edison who are going in the same direction. Similarly some buses originating in Edison will also serve Piscataway and Shop 10 a m. to 9:30 p.m.

Monday thru Saturday SILLS RULES COUNCILMAN OUT the Sills refused to approve Just Say "Charge It' lim hoard's action, thereby eli to inating Addonizio, according Assistant Atty. Gen. Jaseph A Hoffman. Hoffman declined to discu DEPARTMENT STORES TRENTON (AP Newark City Councilman Frank Addon-izio has been dropped from his $7,000 a year position as secretary to the State Board of Beauty Culture Control, a state official disclosed Friday. He had held the job since June 1963.

The board reorganized earlier this month, Addonizio said, and re-elected him secretary at an increased salary of $10,000. However, Slate Atty. Gen. Arthur J. the reason for Sills' action.

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