Celebrating a special landmark in a special community: 50 years of the Morris School District
Making School Integration Work
Paul Tractenberg, Allison Roda, Ryan Coughlan, and Deirdre DoughertyPublication Date: April 3, 2020
Pages: 224
On September 30, author Paul Tractenberg published a commentary on the history of the Morris School District on Morristown Green:
Read the full essay at the Morristown Green
The Morris community has marched to the beat of its own special drummer for the past 50 years, and actually much longer.
Its formal action in 1972 to create a merged K-12 school district culminated an effort that had begun years earlier to provide its students with rich educational opportunities in a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse setting. In that regard, it was far ahead of most communities in Morris County, New Jersey, and the nation.