Various requests for public records from your school district
Dear Shrewsbury Boro Board of Education,
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7) Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents of your school district since November 1, 2022 to present.
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.
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.
10) Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any outside council from January 1, 2023 to present
Yours faithfully,
Michael Gottesman, Individually and as Founder of the
New Jersey Public Education Coalition
Attached please find request to extend date for OPRA
Thanks
Chris DeLeonardo
Confidential Executive Secretary
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Good evening,
Please be advised, I am the Records’ Custodian for the Shrewsbury Borough
School District Board of Education (the “Board”). I am in receipt of your
OPRA request (the “Request”) dated August 5, 2023 pursuant to the Open
Public Records Act (“OPRA” or the “ACT”) and received on August 7, 2023, I
previously advised of the need for an extension, in that Request you seek
the following:
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; 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. I am not in possession
of a document responsive to your request.
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. I am
not in possession of any such document.
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.
I am not in possession of a document responsive to your request.
4. [sic] – 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.
○ 4.12.22 and 4.13.23 PLC Meeting (see below) regarding NJSLS 2020
standards
implementation including CH&PE.
○ At its August 18, 2023 the SBSD Board of Education approved and adopted
curriculum that included the 2020 NJSLS for [1]Comprehensive Health &
Physical
Education.
○ Early September 2022 all district curricula were made public
on [2]district website
via Atlas Rubicon.
○ September 2023 SBSD purchased [3]The Great Body Shop to supplement its
K-4
Elementary Health curriculum
○ Faculty Meeting (see below) teachers received professional development
5. [sic] 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 these links:
[4]https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...
[5]https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...
[6]https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...
[7]https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...
[8]https://www.sbs.k12.nj.us/Page/112
6. [sic] Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents
of your school district since November 1, 2022 to present. N/A
7. [sic] 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
8. [ sic] Any documents, policies, or regulations relating to the
review of current textbooks or the review of new textbooks or textbooks
being considered for purchase. See links in number 5.
9. [sic] Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any
outside council from January 1, 2023 to present. See attached.
Thank you for your patience. I will consider this request completed.
Have a great weekend,
Lindsey