Please see the following response to your OPRA request to the Green Brok
Township Board of Education on 8/5/2023:
In accordance with the New Jersey open public records Act, we hereby
request for response to the following request hold

1) Please provide documents indicating the total number of students
enrolled in all public schools and charter schools in your District for
the 2022-2023 school year;
754 students, see attached.
2) Please provide documents indicating the total number of students whose
parents have availed themselves of the opt-out provisions of
N.J.S.A.18A:35-4.7 and opted their child out of all or a portion of the
2020 NJSLS-CHPE mandate or curriculum promulgated in accordance thereto
for the 2022-2023 school year. Please provide documents indicating the
number of opt-outs by individual grade levels.
NONE
3) Please provide a copy of the document(s) used by the district by which
parents can opt-out or opt-in their children from all or a portion of the
curriculum mandated by the 2020 NJSLS-CHPE in your district.
There is no document; policy covers the process and lets parents submit a
written request in writing. A mass email was sent notifying parents.
[1]Policy 2422  
[2]Policy 2510
4) Please provide documents showing how you implemented the “parent
opt-out” for the 2020 NJSLS-CHPE and Health & Physical Education
curriculum and a copy of the document by which parents can opt-out their
children from all or a portion of the curriculum mandated by the 2020
NJSLS-CHPE in your district. Including but not limited to forms, flyers,
emails to parents and/or a website.
There is no document; policy covers the process and lets parents submit a
written request in writing. A mass email was sent notifying parents.
[3]Policy 2422  
[4]Policy 2510
4) Please provide documents showing how the 2020 NJSLS-CHPE mandate was
implemented in your district, for example: a) in the classroom; b) at home
by parents; c) as a homework assignment; d) in an assembly; e) as a
webinar; f) being taught on the last day of school; g) any methods but
with elements removed; h) not at all.
Assemblies held with grade 5 and grade 8 students. A mass email was sent
notifying parent
[5]Policy 2510
6) Copies of the BOE policies and regulations regarding the composition of
your “Book Review Committee,” as well as policies controlling book reviews
or book removal requests.
See above reference policies. No process for public-initiated removal
requests.
7) Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents of your
school district since November 1, 2022 to present.
None.

8) If any books have been removed from curriculum or from public school
libraries as a result of a demand for removal or by the Board action in
accordance with your book removal policy, copies of all documents relating
to the review or removal.
N/A
9) Any documents, policies or regulations relating to the review of
current textbooks or the review of new textbooks or textbooks being
considered for purchase.
None.
10) Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any outside
council from January 1, 2023 to present.
Attached.
Please let me know if you require additional information/clarification.
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Jason Weber
School Business Administrator
Green Brook Township Public Schools
[6]www.gbtps.org
(732) 968-1171 x.1510

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