Edison Township Public Schools

Edison is running several projects at once: renovations to the John P. Stevens High School auditorium on a contract of about $6.06 million, new electrical work in the John P. Stevens science labs on a $662,515 contract, additions and renovations at John Marshall Elementary School, and a project at James Madison Intermediate School that was held up by an appellate stay before a contract was awarded in December 2025. A new gymnasium at Woodrow Wilson Middle School is finished and the board met in it in September 2025. Change orders through the year covered lobby panelling, state environmental requirements, anchor bolts and $110,000 of overtime.

1. Sep 30, 2025Board meets in the new Woodrow Wilson Middle School gymnasium; appellate stay reported on the James Madison Intermediate project
2. Oct 28, 2025Change orders approved on the John P. Stevens science labs and the John Marshall additions
3. Nov 25, 2025James Madison Intermediate contract awarded, with a kick-off meeting set for December
4. Apr 28, 2026Budget adopted with capital outlay cut to $20,594,921

The district worked through 2025 on buying 430 Talmadge Road, with due diligence in progress by September and easements under review with bond counsel by November. The April 28, 2026 agenda then carried a resolution authorising termination of the purchase contract. At the May 5 and May 19, 2026 meetings a member twice moved to take the Talmadge Road resolution off the table and lost both times, three to five and then four to five. The collected record does not state what the land was for or what it would have cost.

1. Sep 30, 2025Finance and facilities committee reports due diligence in progress on the purchase
2. Nov 25, 2025Committee reviewing easements with bond counsel
3. Apr 28, 2026Agenda carries a resolution authorising termination of the purchase contract
4. May 19, 2026Second motion to un-table the resolution fails four votes to five

With special education instruction up 25 percent to $30,064,088 and individual out-of-district placements running between about $17,500 and $25,600 a year, the finance and facilities committee discussed in November 2025 leasing a building from Our Lady of Peace to run special education programmes so that students currently placed outside the district could be brought back in. Nothing has been signed in the collected record.

1. Nov 25, 2025Committee discusses leasing a building from Our Lady of Peace so out-of-district students can be rematriculated in district
2. Apr 28, 2026Budget adopted with special education instruction up $6,027,510

The policy committee reported in June 2026 that it had reviewed the state policy alert behind New Jersey's new device rules and was working on implementing the district's new cellphone policy, including how it would be communicated and what would be expected, for a rollout in the 2026-2027 school year. The published manual still carries the older Policy 5516, last edited April 2025, which limits personal device use during the school day and protects use documented in an individualized education programme, a 504 plan or a health plan approved by the principal and school nurse.

1. Jun 23, 2026Policy committee reviews the state policy alert and discusses rollout for 2026-2027

The district is running a second phase of an energy savings improvement programme with ABM, with project financing reported to the finance and facilities committee in September 2025. New Jersey's energy savings improvement programme lets a district pay for efficiency work out of the energy savings it produces rather than from the tax levy.

1. Sep 30, 2025Finance and facilities committee reports phase two project financing with ABM