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Lawrence Township Public Schools has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The NAMM Foundation for their outstanding support and commitment to music education. Now in its 26th year, the Best Communities for Music Education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for providing music access and education to all students.  This is the 15th year that LTPS has received this recognition.

Lawrence Township Public Schools is proud to announce that six of its exceptional educators have been selected to participate in The College of New Jersey’s inaugural cohort of Sustainable and Innovative STEM Master Teacher Fellows.

The successful applicant must be willing to serve as a Board Member from July 2025 through the first week of January 2026. 

Lawrence citizens interested in filling the vacant Board of Education seat should submit an Email of Interest to the Board President, Michele Bowes at MBowes@ltps.org and the Board Secretary, Thomas Eldridge, at TEldridge@ltps.org.   Applicants should explain the reasons they are interested in joining the Board of Education within their Email of Interest.  Please label emails “Board Vacancy”.  The Email of Interest is due on or before May 30, 2025.

We all have heard about the importance of “belonging.” But what does it mean to really “matter?” Join us for an insightful conversation to help our kids on the journey from belonging to mattering: at home, in the classroom, and in the world.

On April 25th thru April 27,  the LHS Model UN Team attended the Global Classrooms International Model UN Conference in New York City. The Team played the role of delegates from Ethiopia, Morocco, Sudan, and Syrian Arab Republic.  They tackled issues such as structuring debt repayment through trade deals, the implications of digital currency on monetary policy & financial stability, global intellectual property rights in the Age of 3D printing and biotechnology, and the implications of AI for National Security and cyber warfare. In their 4 committees, The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the UN office of Counter-Terrorism, team members made opening topic speeches and smaller sub-topic speeches, collaborated with other students from all over the U.S. and other countries such as Canada, Mexico, Spain, Japan, and Ghana, on draft resolutions to their issue, defended those draft resolutions, and then voted in committee for their draft resolutions to become official.