Good morning,

Please see below.

Thank you,

Jonathan S. Houdart, CPA
School Business Administrator/Board Secretary
Brigantine Board of Education
301 East Evans Boulevard
Brigantine, NJ 08203
P: 609-266-3632
F: 609-800-1195
[Brigantine Public School District request email]

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From: NJPEC <[OPRA #49501 email]>
Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2023 3:24 PM
To: OPRA requests at Brigantine Public School District
<[Brigantine Public School District request email]>
Subject: OPRA request - Various requests for public records from your school
district

Dear Brigantine Public School District,

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;
385 students

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.
N/A - Zero

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.
N/A (No parents reached out to the district about opting-out their children)

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.
All curriculum, including PE/Health, is posted on the District website under
the curriculum tab
(https://app.oncoursesystems.com/school/w...). All
members of the public were directed to the website to review the CHPE
curriculum at the December 16, 2021 BOE meeting during the curriculum
updates presentation to provide any feedback/request(s) for opt-out. The
district received zero responses for opt-out.

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 policy 2510 (Adopting Textbooks) regarding selection of books in the
district
(https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...).
Books are selected based on the approved ELA curriculum
(https://app.oncoursesystems.com/school/w...) and
reviewed classroom orders annually. At this time, there were zero requests
to remove books.

7) Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents of your
school district since November 1, 2022 to present.
No book removal or review requests were made by residents of our school
district since November 1, 2022.

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.
See policy 2510 (Adopting Textbooks) regarding selection of books in the
district
(https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Pu...).

10) Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any outside
council from January 1, 2023 to present
See attached legal bills

Yours faithfully,

Michael Gottesman, Individually and as Founder of the

New Jersey Public Education Coalition

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