Long Range Facilities Plan

Updates include additional classrooms in elementary schools, a new Student Commons and expanded guidance suite and library at CHS, HVAC and security improvements. Supt. Bing: “It’s probably the best job I’ve seen in how the new blends in with the old.”

Supt. Jason Bing: “Equity will become the driving force of everything that we’re doing.”

Acting Supt. Gilbert provided the BOE with an update on SOMSD’s five district goals for 2024-25.

“We are going to need to come back and figure out what it is that we’re going to do to make sure that one way or another we are addressing the needs of our student athletes and developing a field surface of whatever composition that’s going to meet the needs of all of our students,” said BOE member Will Meyer.

On Feb. 29, District officials said the Ritzer Field project could not be severed from the bond resolution; but now the “ask” is broken out into four project numbers.

From the South Orange Maplewood Board of Education: Notice is hereby given to the…

From the South Orange Maplewood Board of Education: Notice is hereby given to the…

Ahead of the now-postponed Feb. 13 Board of School Estimate meeting to vote on…

Students, parents and community members spoke passionately for and against the turfing of Ritzer Field. The Board of School Estimate will vote on the entire proposal on February 13.

The five candidates respond to our questions on the Long Range Facilities Plan