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Weekly Roundup: Top grads, class size top this week’s stories

Catch up on the biggest stories in Moorestown this week.

Salutatorian William Wang (left) and valedictorian Laura Tsai lean on the Nipper outside of the Moorestown Community House. The two posed for a photo on Wednesday, June 13 following their last day of classes at Moorestown High School.

Laura Tsai and William Wang are this year’s valedictorian and salutatorian, and the Board of Education updated their class size policy. Catch up on everything from the past week in the Weekly Roundup.

Council looks to modernize ordinance in age of food trucks and mobile vendors

At the most recent meeting of Moorestown Township Council, amendments to an ordinance related to “transient vendors” had Councilwoman Lisa Petriello questioning how laws could be modernized in the age of food trucks and other mobile vendors. The ordinance passed on first reading was amended to include minor updates to language. The additions clarify the process that any transient vendor must complete a background check to be eligible to obtain a permit.

Tsai and Wang: Friends on ‘track’ for success

In seventh grade, Laura Tsai and William Wang were the only William Allen Middle School students on the advanced math track in Algebra 1 together. In eighth grade, the pair formed a friendship walking from WAMS to Moorestown High School for their geometry class. Today, the two friends are celebrating a milestone together as Tsai has been named the class of 2018 valedictorian, and Wang is the salutatorian. “It’s funny how it started out as just the two of us on the math track,” Tsai sai

Board caps conversation on class size

Since September, class size has been a hot topic of discussion at nearly every Moorestown Township Board of Education meeting. After nearly a year of debate, the board adopted the first update to the district’s policy in 10 years at the June meeting. The update states the desired class size maximum is “not to exceed” 25 students in elementary grades with the exception of 22 students in kindergarten. Also, under the new policy, the superintendent must notify the Board of Education at its next meeting if a class size falls outside of the outlined range.

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