Thank you for contacting me. 
I will be out of the office on Friday, August 4, 2023 through Tuesday,
August 8, 2023. . 
If you are in need of immediate assistance please contact the main office
at (973) 347-0008 ext. 0. 
Thank you, 
Carissa Berkowicz
Stanhope Board of Education
24 Valley Road
Stanhope, NJ  07874
(973) 347-5010 
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Carissa Berkowicz
Assistant to the Business Administrator
Stanhope Board of Education
24 Valley Road
Stanhope, New Jersey  07874
Ph:  (973) 347-5010
Fax:  (973) 347-8368
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On 8/10/2023 a submission through the form provided in the original email
was made to update the contact information for OPRA requests on behalf of
the Stanhope Board of Education. 

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Dear Mr. Gottesman:
The Stanhope Public Schools District records custodian received your Open
Public
Records Act (“OPRA”) request on August 10, 2023. The seven business day
deadline to respond to your request is August 21, 2023. As such, the
District is timely responding to your request in accordance with New
Jersey law. Your OPRA request seeks the following records:

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.

5) 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.

OPRA allows the records custodian to seek extensions of time pursuant to
N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5i. In light of the voluminous nature of your request, the District
requires an additional
29 days (until September 29, 2023) to compile, review, and produce the
potentially responsive
records in accordance with New Jersey law. The District also reserves the
right to request an
additional extension of time if necessary. See Scheeler v. New Jersey
Department of Educ., GRC Complaint No. 2014-123 (2016).

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

With You in Education,
Debra LeBrun
School Business Administrator/Board Secretary
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Please see all documents attached below. 
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Debi LeBrun
Stanhope Public Schools
Schools Business Administrator/Board Secretary 
Telephone: 973-347-0008 Ext: 4107
Fax: 973-347-8368
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strictly prohibited and also may violate statutory and regulatory
requirements. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately
notify the sender at Stanhope School District, New Jersey, USA.

Please see attached below. 
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Debi LeBrun
Stanhope Public Schools
Schools Business Administrator/Board Secretary 
Telephone: 973-347-0008 Ext: 4107
Fax: 973-347-8368
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may be withheld from the public because disclosure would cause foreseeable
harm to an interest protected by one or more of the Freedom of Information
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this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized and
may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient of this message,
any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or retention of the same is
strictly prohibited and also may violate statutory and regulatory
requirements. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately
notify the sender at Stanhope School District, New Jersey, USA.