Sixteen Republican lawmakers are trying to convince the state Board of Education to vote down proposed gender-based changes they call “broad and overbearing” and suggest the board doesn’t have the statutory authority to bypass the legislature.
The proposal seeks to eliminate gendered nouns and pronouns in the Managing for Equality and Equity in Education in a chapter of the state’s administrative code.
“Deleting words, replacing words, and forcing a one size fits all ‘equity’ into every public school district is clearly not what is best for any school district, nor any student,” said State Sens. Edward Durr (R-Logan) and Steve Oroho (R-Franklin), Assemblywoman Bethanne McCarthy Patrick (R-Mannington), and Assemblymen Gerald Scharfenberger (R-Middletown), Erik Peterson (R-Franklin), Christian Barranco (R-Jefferson), Parker Space (R-Wantage), Hal Wirths (R-Wantage) in a letter released today.
Similar letters came from State Sens. Robert Singer (R-Lakewood) and James Holzapfel (R-Toms River), and Assemblymen Michael Torrissi, Jr. (R-Hammonton), Brandon Umba (R-Medford), Sean Kean (R-Wall), Ned Thomson (R-Wall), Greg McGuckin (R-Toms River), and John Catalano (R-Brick).
The panel is meeting on August 2,
“It is not just the students and the parents whose rights will be stripped, but also the local control,” said Victoria Jakelsky, the director of New Jersey Parental Rights, a grassroots organization.
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