Good Morning:

Please see below and documents attached where applicable.  

Dear Cape May Special Services 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.   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. No parents availed
themselves of the opt-out provision.
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.  LINK TO OUR
WEBSITE:  
[1]https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQ...
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. The opt out document is on our website
SEE ABOVE LINK
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. In the classroom 
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. Policy and Regulation 2510 - Adoption of
Textbooks, and Policy and Regulation 2530 - Resource Materials - ATTACHED
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 have been made. 
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. None removed. 
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. Policy and Regulation 2510 - Adoption of
Textbooks.- ATTACHED 
10) Copies of all legal bills from the Board Attorney or from any outside
council from January 1, 2023 to present.  ATTACHED  

Yours faithfully,
Michael Gottesman, Individually and as Founder of the
New Jersey Public Education Coalition

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