With the Legislature honing in on major changes in school elections, the NJSBA Board of Directors on May 19 adopted new policies that will give the Association more flexibility in representing school boards’ concerns.

The new policies (3100 and 9112) eliminate previous statements, which supported the conduct of the Annual School Election on no other date than the third Tuesday in April.  The new NJSBA policy states that the election of school board members should not take place on or near the date of any partisan election, such as the November General Election. It will give NJSBA the flexibility to support the conduct of non-partisan board member elections on a date other than the third Tuesday in April.

Legislation that would change the election date for school board members from April to November and eliminate votes on district budgets at or below cap, S-1546 (Turner), is now in position for a vote by the full Senate.