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FILE CODE: 1120
SPRINGFIELD TWP. BOARD OF EDUCATION JOBSTOWN, NEW JERSEY CRITICAL POLICY REFERENCE MANUAL
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Board of education meetings shall be a primary means of sharing information with community members and inviting their comments and suggestions. Regular and special meetings of the board of education are open to the public and representatives of the media, except when, by resolution at the public meeting, the board of education excludes the public from those parts of a meeting which deal with matters held confidential in accordance with law.
The board of education welcomes participation of interested organizations and individuals and will schedule time as appropriate for the public to speak. The length of time scheduled for public discussion shall be slated in the agenda, together with any time limit proposed for individual speakers.
The board of education will not permit unnecessary or undesirable identification of district pupils at public or board of education meetings, particularly when the pupil is subject to disciplinary action, or is educationally disabled. A special confidential file shall be kept of the names of educationally disabled pupils on whose behalf the board must take public action. An unidentifiable coding shall be used when referring to the pupil.
Comments and questions at the end of regular meetings may deal with any topic related to the board of education’s conduct of the schools. Comments at special meetings must be related to the call of the meeting. Advance announcement of all regular, scheduled special and specially called meetings of the board of education is made through newspapers.
In a regular board of education meeting by September 30 of each year, the chief school administrator shall provide a quality assurance report, which includes information on the following topics:
A. Implementation of school-level plans;
B. Achievement of performance objectives;
C. Each school profile, including pupil performance results and student behavior data;
D. Professional development activities;
E. Condition of school facilities;
F. Status of mandated program reviews;
G. Community support data as detailed in the administrative code.
Other items presented at board of education meetings must include, but are not limited to:
A. Presentation of audit report;
B. Presentation of budget;
C. Graduation and dropout statistics; other demographic data;
D. Mandated in-service programs.
Previous Policy: #7000 and #7800
Original Date Adopted: October 17, 1980 and May 12, 1992 respectively
Date Adopted as Policy #1120: December 15, 1998
Legal References:
N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq. Open Public Meetings Act
N.J.S.A. 18A:10-6 Board meetings public; frequency; hours of commencement;
Adjournment, etc., for lack of quorum
N.J.S.A. 18A:22-10 Fixing day, etc., for public hearing
N.J.S.A. 18A:22-13 Public hearing; objectives; heard, etc.
N.J.S.A. 18A:23-5 Meeting of board; discussion of report
N.J.S.A. 18A:7C-7 School administrators report on students awarded or denied diplomas
N.J.A.C. 6:3-1.6 Reporting and staffing of school districts
N.J.A.C. 6:8-2.1 Reporting requirements
N.J.A.C. 6:8-2.2 School-level planning
N.J.A.C. 6A:8-5.2(e) High school diplomas
N.J.A.C. 6A:14-1.1 et seq. Special Education
N.J.A.C. 6A:30-1.1 et seq. Evaluation of the Performance of School Districts