Deadline Nears to Run for School Board

If you are thinking of running for a seat on the school board, you are running out of time to get those petitions signed and returned. Petitions must be returned by June 5 in order to run in the November election.

, the Millburn Board of Education approved a resolution on February 13, 2012 that moves the school elections from April to the general .

Sam Levy and Mark Zucker, members of the current whose terms would have expired after the April 2012 election, will continue to serve until the board’s organization meeting, which will be held the first week in January 2013.

School board races will remain non-partisan, and candidates’ names will appear on a separate section of the November ballot. The change in the school election date will remain in effect at least through November 2015, when the community has the option of changing it back to April. 

Candidates are required to submit a nominating petition (the document that places their name on the ballot) to the County Clerk, not the local school board office. The deadline to submit nominating petitions will be June 5, 2012. More information about candidacy for the November election will be posted on the New Jersey School Boards Association website, www.njsba.org.

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