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Amid protest, Trenton school board votes for a plan to redistribute kids during construction of new high school

Jenna Pizzi | March 24, 2014

Amid protests and fears that students would be shifted to unsafe areas in the school district, the school board tonight voted 8-1 in favor of a plan to redistribute students while the new high school is built.

Construction of the replacement Trenton Central High School begins in September, and the board tonight selected three classroom locations around Trenton that can absorb the 1,800 students.

Up to 450 students from the Daylight/Twilight Alternative High School in the downtown will be moved to the Cadwalader School in the West Ward so that high school students can move in, but school officials have not yet decided whether all Daylight/Twilight students would be moved.

Tonight, Daylight/Twilight students objected that some of the students would be targeted by gangs in the West Ward.

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