Groups are making legal filings that would allow them to spend on elections and advocacy as battles over sex education standards, library books bans and lessons about diversity heat up in New Jersey.
, said lessons based on the new standards would be confined to the last day of class.
Last year, the NJEA super PAC, Garden State Forward, spent more than $300,000 on independent expenditures for school elections, including more than $25,000 in Sparta, according to data from the state Election Law Enforcement Commission. Ultimately, the New Jersey Project-backed Students First slate took all six seats in a crowded race of 17 candidates.
He described swarming the Colts Neck meeting as a “squadron alert,” made possible through a network of volunteers in about half of all New Jersey towns, ready to sound alarm bells when issues like the transgender student policy come up in their communities. And he said the coalition serves as a way for like-minded members to pool resources, such as “informal scripts” for speaking at school boards.
Gottesman’s group is also lobbying the state to enforce the sex ed standards. Department of Education officials have said districts could face “discipline” for defying them,. The group asked the state New Jersey School Ethics Commission for an opinion as to whether individual school board members would be violating ethics rules if they voted for policies that work around the sex ed standards, like an “opt-in” system.
Another conservative group, Arise New Jersey, tracked hundreds of candidates in the 2022 election and celebrated victories in several counties,last November. Its website is defunct, but recently posted materials describing “gender ideology” as a “denial of reality” to its social media. Arise hasn’t responded to inquiries via email and its Facebook page.
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