The East Rockaway Board of Education has decided not to go ahead with the proposed "Princeton Plan" that would have possibly involved changing the two elementary schools -- Centre Avenue and Rhame Avenue -- from neighborhood schools to grade-oriented schools. Superintendent Roseanne Melucci made the announcement to a packed house at the regular board of education meeting held in the Harry Bunting Auditorium in the high school on Ocean Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
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