AEGiS-UPI: State Cautions Schools In Jersey AIDS Dispute

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State Cautions Schools In Jersey AIDS Dispute

United Press International - October 9, 1985

TRENTON, Oct. 9 - The New Jersey Education Department said today that two local school boards would face state sanctions if they did not allow children exposed to AIDS into their classrooms.

A department spokesman, Seymour Weiss, said Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman would turn the matter over to the Attorney General for action unless he received official notice from the boards on what steps they would take to comply with state orders.

A brother and sister in Washington Borough, in Warren County, and a girl in Plainfield, in Union County, have been barred from school.

The Plainfield kindergarten pupil is the only one of the three who has AIDS. The girl in Washington has what was described as AIDS-related complex, a less serious form of the disease, and her 9-year-old brother has tested negative for the virus that has been linked to AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

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