Meet the Candidates: Find Out Where You Vote!

ENGLEWOOD RESIDENTS: Do you know where to vote in 

the School Board Elections?

Polling Places have changed again!  Click here to find your street in order to determine your WARD, DISTRICT and POLLING PLACE.

April 16, 2013....  7:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Lines 3, 4 and 5. Keep Public Education Alive!
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THE CAMPAIGN  TRAIL 
Come out and question the incumbents and the new Candidates. Find out where they stand on the subject of Education and why they want to become School Board Members. Question the incumbents on policies supported during their 9 years already served on the School Board.

Meet the Candidates:
1.) Parent Teacher Organization of EPSD
     Meet the Candidates Forum 
     April 8, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
     Place: McCloud Elementary School 


2.) League of Women Voters 
     Meet the Candidates Forum
     April 11, 2013 at 7:30 pm
     Place: Public Safety Complex
     73 Van Brunt Street

Streets Wards and Districts
http://www.cityofenglewood.org/filestorage/1441/1468/2265/1477/ROSTER_OF_STREETS-_WARDS_AND_DISTRICTS-_12-13-12.pdf

Polling Places
http://www.cityofenglewood.org/filestorage/1441/1468/2265/1477/PollingLocations_2013.pdf


NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
DATES FOR 2013 SCHOOL ELECTION AND BUDGET PROCEDURES

The 4 Wards Coalition 4 Empowerment is 

Proud to Support

The Dream Team

Left to Right: Devry Pazant, Carol Feinstein, 
Junius "Jeff"Carter 

Candidates for Englewood School Board

Lines 3, 4 and 5

Keep Public Education Alive!

Vote April 16, 2013
7 am - 9 pm

How Do We Build a Great School Board?

How do we build a successful School Board that interprets to the staff the aspirations of the community for its school? How do we build a School Board that responds to the needs of the "People" and holds the "Achievement of ALL students" as priority above all else?

1. Examine the track record of the incumbents.   A bit of history as viewed from out here.  Suburbanite 2010.

2. Learn and use the OPRA PROCESS. (Open Public Records Act)

3. Learn and use the Open Public Meetings Act law. 

4. Read and Learn about THE SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION and the School Ethics Act.

5. Learn to write and to file ETHICS VIOLATIONS using the official School Ethics Complaint forms from the New Jersey State Department of Education.  

6. Make sure that the Board appoints a Delegate and an Alternate to the New Jersey School Boards Association during reorganization. (Reorganization meeting is held after the School Board election.)

7. Make sure the Superintendent is evaluated on a yearly basis, in writing, in a public meeting, based on whether the Goals and Objectives the Board and the Superintendent set together are met.

8. Demand to see this written evaluation form. If you must, OPRA (request in writing) the evaluation form in the finished version.

9. Write and file ETHICS VIOLATIONS on Board Members when they are seen involved in activities that are outlined as infractions by the School Ethics Commission. Read the frequently asked questions and answers about filing ethics violations.

10. Support the teachers, principals and Superintendents when they are hard working professionals and the results of their hard work is evident in the success of the students.

11. Make sure that all School Board Members get the training that is mandated and required. Praise them when they go beyond the requirement and positive results in student achievement are evident.

12. Read and understand the role of the New Jersey School Boards Association. If a School Board shuts out this organization, it is very suspicious and against the law. Taxpayers pay over $26,000.00 per year for the serices of the New Jersey School Boards Association. This is the organization that trains the School Board Members in the state of New Jersey after we elect them. When more of the community understands what the School Board is supposed to do, we will have a better school system, with more effective employees and smarter more well trained children.

A History of the New Jersey School Boards Association

Education Matters: Legal Aspects of Board Service

Open Public Meetings Act or Sunshine Law

Open Public Meetings Act..What Boards should know about Education.

Education Matters: Annual Goal Setting

Education Matters: Legal Aspects of Board Service

The Chief School Administrator Evaluation Process 

or

The Process of Evaluating the School Superintendent

The People's Town Hall Meeting on Public Education Issues & Solutions

February 23, 2013 at Community Baptist Church in Englewood, NJ

The videos.....Beginning with the Introduction. The entire Town Hall was videotaped and will be available on this blog and on Facebook for those who were not in attendance. This People's Town Hall did not focus on Englewood. It had a State and National focus, because the subject matter is bigger than our City. Other sections will be added in digestible pieces as it is digitally prepared for publication.

The Introduction: Lorenzo Richardson, Concerned Citizens Coalition of Jersey City, New Jersey

Keynote Speaker: Stan Karp, Director of the Secondary Reform Project for the Education Law Center

More to come...