New Law Requires School Board Background Checks
New members will be checked for the same violations teachers are.
School board membership requirements have gotten stricter thanks to a new law. Signed into law on May 26, the rule requires board members and charter school trustees to undergo criminal background checks within 30 days of being elected or appointed to a charter school board, according to the New Jersey School Boards Association. Crimes involving controlled dangerous substances and drug paraphernalia, robbery, aggravated assault, stalking, kidnapping, arson, manslaughter and murder, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats, criminal restraint, luring or enticing a child, causing or risking widespread injury or damage, criminal mischief, burglary, threats or improper influence, resisting arrest, bias intimidation, escape, …
Lisa Shields
7:35 am on Thursday, July 7, 2011
So far as a "double standard" is concerned, a background check is looking for convictions under the law. If someone has never been charged, you won't find anything. And I never heard of an illegal running for the school board. Have you? more ›