Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 71

71 COURIER-POST, Camden, N.J., Thursday, August 21, 1975 iVeti? ftigt schools in Delran, Evesham ready to open By KAREN CURRAN Courier-Post Staff New high schools will open in both Delran and Evesham this fall, but the concepts under which each school was built are vastly different. Delran, which had been sending high school students to Riverside, will open its own $6 million high school with 864 students in grades 9 through 12. The local share of the cost is coming strictly from Delran residents. It's their high school. The high school in Evesham isn't really Evesham's high school.

It is for students from Evesham, but it's also for students from the six other towns which make up the Lenape Regional High School District. THE LOCAL share of the $7 million cost of Cherokee High School, the third school in the Iienape district, will be shared by the seven municipalities according to the percentage of tax ratables they have within the district as a whole. Of the district's 4,950 high school students, 750 ninth and tenth graders will go to Cherq-kee in the fall. The regional concept has been around a while, but K. Kiki Konstantinos, Lenape's superintendent, isn't sure his district would be the same if the voters were faced with a regional school referendum today.

A study for the Lenape district was begun in 1955. When the issue was put to the voters, seven municipalities Mount Laurel, Evesham, Med-ford, Medford Lakes, Southampton, Tabernacle and Sha-mong passed it. THREE OTHER municipalities Delaware Township now Cherry Hill), Maple Shade and Woodland Township rejected it. Lenape High School in Medford Township opened in 1958 with 650 students. The district has grown tremendously since then.

Voters approved two additions to Lenape and in 1970 Shawnee High School, also in Medford Township, was opened. But Konstantinos thinks that if the referendum came up today, two of the municipalities Mount Laurel and Evesham which are large enough to build their own schools would probably opt to go in that direction. THE OTHER five municipalities would probably form a region, he said. On the other hand, if it were entirely Delran's choice, assistant superintendent Anthony Casale thinks his district might have preferred to form a region doesn't have a big problem findingacurriculum suitable to students from the seven different municipalities. All the municipalities in a regional district have representation on the regional school board, so they all have a say in the high school academic programs.

But Casale said the district that goes it alone has complete control over curriculum. This he sees as the major advantage of a non-regional district. Konstantinos doesn't see rapid growth of a regional district such as Lenape as a problem. "Is Camden too big?" he asked. "Is Cherry Hill too big?" with Riverside and Delanco.

In 1971, the boards of education in the three towns approved and put to the voters a referendum for a regional school district. Delran passed the referendum, but the other two districts turned it down. Since Riverside High School, Delran's receiving district, was overcrowded, the only choice left was a new high school for Delran alone. THE BOARD of education feltso strongly about the school that it hired a principal before the issue even came to a vote. In February 1973, voters rejected a bond issue for Delran High School.

Undaunted, the board tried again in May. That time, it passed, and the district was on its way. Both Konstantinos and Casale agree that the biggest advantage of a regional district is the financial one of spreading costs among several communities. The biggest disadvantage, Konstantinos said, is that a regional high school district has no say about elementary curricula. THE ELEMENTARY districts can have widely varying programs which could present problems when the students move on to high school.

Konstantinos said Lenape works with administrators in the elementary districts and Fund-stricken Glouco schools relying on special grants State aid cutbacks, local budget cuts force officials to go elsewhere A spokeswoman for the district said a $1,000 state mini-grant that got the "Hornet" started last year has lapsed. Fifth and sixth grade staffers will sell Bicentennial commemorative bottles to fund the paper this year, she said. installation costs, estimated at $15,000 to $20,000 per school district. In the absence of special state funds, the East Greenwich elementary district will use a bit of private enterprise to sustain its school newspaper. grants for equ ipment About 4,500 pupils in 18 elementary schools will be able to buy inexpensive lunches under the state-mandated program.

Federal funds will cover 75 per cent of the equipment and By BERNEE WEISENFELD Courier-Post Staff Gloucester County school districts, pinched by local budget defeats and state aid cutbacks, are relying on special lirants this year for most of their new programs. State and federal grants will support new vocational education classes in Monroe Township. Deptford, Glassboro and Woodbury. Woodbury and five other aimed at "independent or semi-independent employment," he said. The Deptford project will also train students in a "work environment." Maintenance, landscaping and gardening, assembly line and homemak-ing skills will be emphasised.

About 20 trainable students aged 12 to 20 will be enrolled. Students will be paid a small stipend for their work training which will take place in the New Sharon School. districts will also receive federal money to start new lunch programs. A $40,000 grant to Glassboro and $25,000 given to Deptford will fund vocational classes for trainable, or severely retarded, "trainable" or severely retarded- students. William CulberLson, child study team coordinator for Glassboro said that district's program will be established in the Elsmere School and will include the creation of a simulated workshop where students can learn job skills.

ABOUT 55 students six to 20 years old will be enrolled. Culbertson said the program represents a new approach to education for the severely retarded. "The primary emphasis in the past has been on self-help skills, such as fixing meals. If they entered into the work force at all it was in sheltered workshops," he said. The Glassboro curriculum is i i PORTABLE ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER S6 million cost MONROE TOWNSHIP will receive $7,000 in state funds to start a cooperative home economics employment class for high school students and a "career education" eurriculim for seventh and eighth graders.

Richard Backer, assistant superintendent, said the home economics class will be a work-study plan which will place about 20 students in child care, hospital, food processing and textile-related jobs. The career education program is designed to "make students more aware" of a variety of work opportunities. Backer said 13 broad occupational areas will be studied. A $5,200 state qrant will fund an employment orientation class for special education students at Woodbury High School, principal James Russ-man said. Another state grant of $2,700 will help start a cooperative industrial education program at the high school in which students will receive credit for part-time employment in industry.

NEW LUNCHROOMS will' open in elementary schools in Woodbury, West Deptford, Paulsboro, National Park, Woodbury Heights and West-ville with the aid of federal scm 14950 NEW PORTABLE 7 6 50 TYPEWRITER Skills center to open PRICE INCLUDES OUR TOP-DOLLAR Glassboro ets U.S. grant for preschoolers GLASSBORO The Glassboro Public Schools have been awarded a federal grant to serve handicapped preschool children. The grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare is for a cooperative venture with Glassboro State College at its Bozarth Early Childhood Center. The program will provide an educational setting for children aged 3 and 4 who are neurologi-cally or orthopedically handicapped.

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ABOUT 500 men and wonen will be enrolled in one and two-year post-secondary pro-crams, primarily at the Gloucester Township campus. To serve more post-secondary students and to make more use of the shops and equipment, several courses will be scheduled in a 2 to 7 p.m. time slot. Last year, 8,691 adults were enrolled in evening courses in about 90 trade preparatory, trade extension and apprentice classes, and in the area's only accredited adult evening high school. ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS VISIT OUR MODERN SHOWROOM OFFICE UtOBEBtTTSON i- Berlin School plans children programs A $6 million educational center for handicapped teenagers and adults will open this fall on the Gloucester Township campus of the Camden County Vocational and Technical Schools.

The four buildings of the Special Needs Center eventually will serve 800 handicapped teenagers during the day and twice that number of adults in the evening. About 400 teenagers will be admitted in September, with enrollment gradually being built up to capacity. Two of the center's buildings both located along Berlin-Cross Keys Road will offer services to the general public. One is a service station that will sell gasoline, tires and other auto services, and will include a shop for the servicing and repair of small engines and marine engines. The other will be a retail garden center with greenhouse facilities.

THE CENTER also will have 11 vocational shops, classrooms, a diagnostic center and offices to serve the handicap-ed, plus a swimming pool and a media center to serve the entire campus. The vocational schools will operate at capacity enrollment in all other divisions in September. The day high school division will serve 2.000 students in grades 9 to 12 at the Pennsau-ken and Gloucester Township campuses. They will be enrolled in 27 shop programs, including a new offering in appliance repair. TYPE WRITER SERVICE 888 HADD0N COLLINGSW00D 858-2263 Open Daily 8:30 A.M.

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