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We Should be letter writing and calling...To all our Government Again!

Trenton Regional Office
Mailing Address: New Jersey Schools Development Authority
Post Office Box 991, Trenton, NJ 08625-0991
Delivery Address: 32 East Front Street, Trenton, NJ 08608
Phone: 609-292-5788 Fax: 609-826-3968


Attention: Larry Hanover

(spoke to Larry Hanover today...he said the DOE is making the list, so I am assuming that the DOE should most definitely be called)

NJ Department of Education
PO Box 500
Trenton, NJ 08625-0500
(609)292-4469

Attention : Lucille Davey


District crossing fingers
Phillipsburg hopes its long-delayed new high school will be on latest list of funded projects.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
By TRISH GRABER
The Express-Times
TRENTON | Odds appear slim that Phillipsburg's long-awaited new high school will be included in the next round of the state's school construction funding.

The Legislature is getting set to consider approving another $2.5 billion bond to build 47 new schools.

If lawmakers approve the new funding, it will be used to complete 27 unfinished projects left over from the last round of funding. Phillipsburg is not among those 27.

But 20 additional projects will be chosen from a list of 371 that local school officials have submitted to the state.

In Phillipsburg, where students attend classes in 31 trailers, school officials are crossing their fingers.

"I am hoping every day that our project will be on an approved list," said acting Superintendent George Chando.

State officials will use a ranking system to decide which projects are completed. That system is being finalized by the Department of Education. All of the 31 so-called Abbott districts' projects will be included.

"They'll be listed in educational priority order and we'll work off that list," said Larry Hanover, spokesman for the Schools Development Authority, which replaced the embattled Schools Construction Corp.

Phillipsburg has been waiting for a new $88 million high school since 2005. The state already completed $16 million in site work, but the project was halted when the Schools Construction Corp. ran out of money.

Earlier this year, Gov. Jon S. Corzine told the Supreme Court he would provide $2.5 billion for construction projects at some of the state's 31 poorest districts, the so-called Abbotts.

Legislators introduced the bill to provide the funding last week. It has yet to be considered by lawmakers.

Trish Graber is Trenton correspondent for The Express-Times. She can be reached at 609-292-5154.



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