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New Jersey Department of Education tells school districts to get started on criminal background checks for Board of Education members
School districts have been notified to begin the process of completing criminal background checks on all school board members.
The state Department of Education has not set a deadline to complete the checks to allow time for the almost 5,000 school board members and charter school trustees to be processed. Districts were notified in a July 14 memo to begin having board members enter their information into the online system so they can get an appointment to be fingerprinted. (D’Amico, Press of Atlantic City)