SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS
Local and Regional School Boards in New Jersey play a critical role in determining educational policy at the municipal level.
In most suburban areas, local parents and residents run for election to these public bodies as unpaid volunteers. In the major cities, the mayor may appoint members to the city school board.
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Why You Should Seek Election to your local School Board
New Jersey’s public/government schools were once the best in the nation.
But in 1947, voters in NJ replaced their state constitution with “the most Progressive constitution of the states.”
This put our Governor as head of ALL Executive Departments, gave him appointment authority over the Attorney General and Secretary of State, and allowed him to appoint all Supreme Court and Superior Court judges.
The “People” don’t elect anyone else in NJ government except legislators.
So, the Governor appoints and directs the Commissioner of Education, and ALL members of the “State Board of Education.”
Guess who tells them what to do?
The Education Department is the largest agency in the government – it spends a lot of money.
Even the Legislature seem to believe it’s the State’s job to teach kids WHAT to believe, rather than to teach basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
Test scores have plummeted. Schools are failing. Costs to taxpayers are rising. And the educational union, the NJEA, spends more money to elect Legislators than anyone else.
Guess who has great influence over the legislature?
Municipal and Regional Boards of Education, comprised of local citizens who are elected or appointed, are the ONLY buffer between the local district and the State.
YOU can play a critical role in setting policies in your school district by becoming a candidate and seeking election.
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