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Dear Delaware Valley Regional 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

August 15, 2023

Dear Mr. Gottesman,

This correspondence is the district’s response to your OPRA Request
received on Monday, August 7, 2023. I hope that you find it to be
responsive. Please acknowledge receipt of this document.

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;

• [1]2023-2024 ASSA Summary - October 14, 2022 Enrollment

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 documents exist. The district does not keep a summary record of how many students opted out by grade level.

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.

• [2]2020 NJSLS-CHPE Opt out form junior year

• [3]2020 NJSLS-CHPE Opt out form freshman year

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]2022-23 Freshman Parent Email - August 18, 2022

• [5]2022-23 Junior Parent Email - March 16, 2023

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.

• No documents exist

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.

• [6]P9130 Public Complaints and Grievances

• [7]R9130 Public Complaints and Grievances

7) Copies of any book removal or review requests made by residents of your
school district since November 1, 2022 to present.

• No requests have been made

• No documents exist
•

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.

• [8]P2510 Adoption of Textbooks

• [9]R2510 Adoption of Textbooks

• 2022-23 Textbook Approvals

◦ [10]Faculty Handbook - Textbook Selection

◦ [11]Board Approval

◦ [12]AP Chemistry

◦ [13]AP Physics C

◦ [14]Introduction to Business Management

◦ [15]Principles of Marketing

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

• [16]January 2023 Redacted Attorney Bill - Student initials redacted

• [17]February 2023 Attorney Bill

• [18]March 2023 Attorney Bill

• [19]April 2023 Redacted Attorney Bill - Student initials redacted

• [20]May 2023 Redacted Attorney Bill - Student initials redacted

• [21]June 2023 Redacted Attorney Bill - Student initials redacted

• [22]July 2023 Attorney Bill

Regards,

Teresa O’Brien

Business Administrator/

Board Secretary/

Records Custodian

Teresa O'Brien, RSBA
Business Administrator
Delaware Valley Regional High School "Cultivating Gold Standards"
Frenchtown Elementary School

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