Good afternoon,
In response to your Open Public Records Act request dated August 5, 2023,
please see the following information:
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;

Please see [1]this link for the District's Enrollment and Average Daily
Attendance Report 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.

Please see the attached Excel document (2 - Health Curricula Conflict of
Conscience _Opt Out_ _ Excused Student List).
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.

Please see the attached PDF document (3 - BTSD Health - Family Letter
2022).
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.
Please see responses to items #2 and #3 above.

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.

Please see [2]this link to the District's Approved Curricula document. The
Health Courses of Study documents are linked to this document.
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.
Please see [3]this link to Policy #6161.2 - Complaints Regarding
Instructional Materials and [4]this link to Policy #1312 - Community
Complaints and Inquiries.

7) Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents of your
school district since November 1, 2022 to present.
There are no documents responsive to this request.

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.
There are no documents responsive to this request.

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.

Please see [5]this link to Policy #6161.1 - Guidelines for Evaluation and
Selection of Instructional Materials.
10) Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any outside
council from January 1, 2023 to present
Please see attached PDF documents (10A - Malamut & Associates Legal Bills
and 10B Parker McCay Legal Bills).
Thank you,
Nicholas Bice
School Business Administrator/Board Secretary
Burlington Township School District
710 Jacksonville Road, Hopkins Building
P.O. Box 428
Burlington, NJ 08016
(609) 387-3955 x2054
(609) 387-3560 (Fax)
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