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Resident urges clearer preschool seat rules; volunteer presses for inclusive language on Piscataway district website
Summary
At the June 12 board meeting, a parent urged the Piscataway Township School District to publish preschool seat counts, income thresholds and consider a public lottery; a volunteer asked the board to update website language and pronoun use to be more inclusive of nonbinary and transgender residents.
At the Piscataway Township School District board meeting on June 12, resident Sandeep Patel urged the district to make its preschool registration process more transparent, saying the current presentation "lacks essential details" about how many seats exist and how many are reserved for income‑eligible families.
"The presentation includes a slide titled income qualifications, but provides no concrete details on the criteria used to determine eligibility," Patel told the board. He asked the district to "annually release a report detailing the total number of preschool seats, the number of applications received, and the breakdown of seats allocated to income‑qualified families versus general…
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