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Public school students from Mount Laurel in ninth through twelfth grades attend Lenape High School, located in Medford Township. [6] [7] As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,895 students and 156.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. [8]
Mount Laurel Township is located in the 3rd Congressional District [56] and is part of New Jersey's 7th state legislative district. [57] [58] [59]
A redevelopment plan is bringing new businesses to a Mount Laurel neighborhood, but residents aren't happy Mount Laurel redevelopment plan attracts businesses, but upsets neighbors Skip to main ...
The Mount Laurel doctrine is a significant judicial doctrine of the New Jersey State Constitution.The doctrine requires that municipalities use their zoning powers in an affirmative manner to provide a realistic opportunity for the production of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households.
Ethel Robinson Lawrence (March 16, 1926 - July 19, 1994) was a civil rights activist who was known as the "Rosa Parks of affordable housing". [1] Lawrence was the lead plaintiff in the Mount Laurel, New Jersey litigation for affordable housing, which led to the New Jersey Fair Housing Act, the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and the Mount Laurel doctrine. [2]
The Evesham Friends Meeting House, also known as the Mount Laurel Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Moorestown-Mt. Laurel and Hainesport-Mt. Laurel Roads (Evesboro Road) in the township of Mount Laurel in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Paulsdale is a historic estate and house museum in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey.Built about 1840, it was the birthplace and childhood home of Alice Paul (1885-1977), a major leader in the Women's suffrage movement in the United States, whose activism led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
Upon the creation of the 40-district legislative map in 1973, the 7th district started out similar to how it looked throughout its modern history, encompassing the north-central Burlington County townships of Mount Laurel and Lumberton, wrapping around the west and north side of Mount Holly to Springfield Township and Wrightstown. [15]