745:, May 16, 1996. Accessed January 23, 2020. "The six towns have been fighting for the last three years about equitable financing of the regional district, and the four towns paying the highest shares of the district's $ 25 million annual budget out-voted the two towns with the smallest shares and decided to break up a system that has endured since 1937. The district was the first regional high school system formed in New Jersey, and now it is the first to vote to dissolve.... The district's two towns without high school buildings -- Garwood and Mountainside -- will remain kindergarten-to-eighth-grade districts and ship out their high school students.... Garwood, the staunchest foe of dissolving the district, now sends its students to Johnson High in Clark but has not decided yet whether to continue that relationship or accept an offer from Kenilworth to send them to a reopened Brearley High."
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826:, for year ending June 30, 2022. Accessed February 15, 2024. "The Borough of Garwood School District is a Type II District located in Union County, New Jersey. The District is an instrumentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an educational institution. The District is governed by a nine member board elected to three-year terms and is responsible for the fiscal control of the District. A superintendent is appointed by the Board and is responsible for the administrative control of the District."
680:. Accessed June 5, 2016. "The school district educates more than 2,350 students in five buildings and enjoys a very positive and collaborative send/receive relationship with the Garwood Public Schools. Students from Garwood are educated in their local K-8 district. They subsequently attend grades 9-12 at our Arthur L. Johnson High School here in Clark."
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