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Revisiting The Issue Of Student Residency
By the Pennsauken Board of Education: Nick Perry, President; Allyson Meloni-Scavuzzo, Vice President; Cheryl Duffy; Michael Hurley; Diane Johnson; Leona Moss; Meg Snyder; Orlando Viera; and JoAnn Young
As we approach spring, the Pennsauken School District is already planning for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. We will begin our budget process in the coming weeks, which will allow us to plan for the implementation of our district goals. In developing the budget, our enrollment numbers are part of the equation. Our total enrollment for the purpose of our budget is based on three categories of students: students who reside in Pennsauken who attend school in our district; students who reside in Pennsauken and attend private schools for special needs services; and those who reside in Pennsauken but attend charter schools. If children do not reside in Pennsauken and fall into one of these categories, they are not eligible to be educated by Pennsauken School District. Identifying ineligible children who are fraudulently being educated in our district is a major concern of the Board of Education, as it places an unfair financial burden on our district and on the taxpayers of Pennsauken.
