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Students and residents urge girls' golf team, calendar review and scrutiny of tax abatements

Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education · March 26, 2026
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Summary

During public comment, a ninth-grade student asked the board to budget a girls' golf team; residents raised concerns about calendar development and local tax abatements that they say reduce school funding.

The board heard multiple public comments about student opportunities and local fiscal policy as its public-comment period opened after the tentative-budget vote.

Ninth-grade student Nora Dorney asked the board to budget a girls' golf team, saying a dedicated girls’ program would give female students “fair competition and equal opportunity” and that surrounding towns already offer girls’ golf. “Girls should get to play…

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