>In Bergen County, nearly 1 in 3 school districts keep April school board elections
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:46 AM Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:47 AM
BERGEN COUNTY — It’s school election day in New Jersey, but only if you live in one of the handful of districts statewide that opted out of a new measure that allowed towns to roll their school elections into the November general election.
According to The Star-Ledger, 87 percent of school boards statewide have moved their school elections to November, and data released by the New Jersey School Boards Association shows that a few counties — Burlingtonm Cape May and Union — have entirely moved elections.
In Bergen County, though, 20 districts opted out of moving their elections, more than twice as many as any other county and accounting for almost one third of its districts.