Time Running Out To Help Haddonfield Schools Plan Their Future

HADDONFIELD, NJ — Haddonfield School District parents and taxpayers have two more scheduled opportunities to help t plan the district’s future, according to the school district.

Representatives from LAN Associates, a company whose website says it specializes in educational architecture and engineering, are facilitating meetings on Monday and Tuesday on behalf of the Haddonfield School District and its Board of Education that allow attendees to weigh in on how the district should use its buildings, curriculum and so forth.

"This is about what we want to see in our schools seen our schools, and let's talk about what everyone believes is important," Chuck Klaus, Haddonfield's Superintendent of Schools, said at the start of a similar meeting on May 2.

"We're going to take you through a little discussion about what you think, what you feel, what you need, what you wish," the school board would do with its properties in the future, he said.

Many Haddonfield students, teachers and administrators have already given their input to LAN Associates, representatives of that company said at the May 2 meeting.

The meetings are being held in advance of an imminent land swap between Haddonfield Borough and the Haddonfield Board of Education, thus opening several new spaces for the district to find uses for, Klaus reminded attendees.

"Simply stated and once this transaction is complete, Haddonfield School District will take ownership of the parcel of land adjacent to the high school ending at Hopkins Road, including Cooley Hall, the carriage house, the potting shed and the greenhouse," he has previously stated. "In exchange, the borough will take ownership of the Radnor Avenue fields, although our athletic teams will continue to use them."

The land swap, when it occurs, will nearly double the size of the property that Haddonfield School District has, Klaus said.

Both Monday’s and Tuesday’s meetings start at 7 p.m., the school board previously announced. The school board asked would-be attendees of these meetings to RSVP using this website – https://bit.ly/37sbAkh -- and to also use the same website to ascertain the locations of these meetings.

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