Public elementary schools in South Orange and Maplewood will have a redistricting plan recommendation no later than June 2020, as part of the school district’s integration efforts, Superintendent Ronald Taylor told the community at a town-hall meeting on Wednesday.
“In September 2021, our first class will be entering into our newly integrated kindergarten,” he told the audience of over 200 people
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