Schools

Legislators Fine-Tune Law Allowing School Elections to Switch to November

Bills will adjust deadlines for board candidates to file and for budgets to be completed.

The 2012 law that resulted in the shift of a vast majority of New Jersey’s school elections to November is about to get some tweaks aimed at making the process easier for both school board candidates and for school districts themselves.

The Assembly Education Committee is slated today to hear several bills aimed at fine-tuning the law that ended the state’s century-old practice of April school votes and led to more than 500 districts shifting the elections to November. One bill, sponsored by state Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Camden), would move back the filing date for candidates seeking election to 64 days before the November election.

That would be three months later than the current early June date that coincides with the party primaries, a full five months before the election. A second bill also under consideration that passed overwhelmingly in the Senate last week would move the date to the last Monday in July. 

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