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Busing Curb Slated By School Board*FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP -Next fall, for the first time, some public elementary school pupils here will be required to walk to school}The Board of Education last night held a first reading of a pupil transportation policy whicb would ban the busing of some pupils who will be able to walk all the way to school on paved sidewalks.With opening of the Laura Donovan school, there will be pupils who can go from the school door to their front door on a sidewalk.The policy calls for pupils in grades one through six to walk if the distance to school — on sidewalks — is less than one mile. Students in grades sevenand eight will be required to walk distances up to a-mile-and-a half.Kindergarten children who live within two-tenths of a mile of the school will be required to walk one way. Children in the morning session will be bused home and children in the p.m. session will be bused to J school. The idea is to bus kindergarten children when there are no older children coming or' going with them, Hugh Oakley, board president explained.A second reading and adop-1 tion of the new policy is sched-, ulcd for the next school board meeting, May 7. That meeting has been moved up one week because of a dinner of the county school boards association scheduled for May 14.
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Wed, Apr 10, 1968
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