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Find out what is being taught in your school district!

Please contact your school today. Send an OPRA request. This is required by law and nothing to be afraid of. Just contact your school and get the email address of the Keeper of the Records. Next send an email similar to the one below: To the Keeper of the Records, or the Custodian of the Records,

Please send me the following information:

• All of the School Board Minutes that mention any of the following terms: LGBT Curriculum, Garden State Equality, pilot program, LGBT history, Inclusion, Gender Identity, and Transgender, between January 2019 through the current date.

• All correspondence (including emails with attachments, and memos) to and from the School’s Superintendent that mention LGBT Curriculum, Inclusion, Garden State Equality, pilot program, LGBT history, Gender Identity, and Transgender, between January 2019 through the current date.

• All correspondence to and from the School Board and its members, that mention LGBT Curriculum, Garden State Equality, Inclusion, pilot program, LGBT history, Transgender, between January 2019 through the current date.

Under the NJ Open Public Records Acts, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 et seq., I am requesting all of the public records above for “YOUR SCHOOL'S NAME School District”.

I am requesting that these records be sent to me via EMAIL, and I understand there is NO FEE for this delivery method. If you incur a cost in excess of $10.00 for copying of these records, please inform me. I understand that the NJ OPRA requires a response time of 7 business days, and I expect a delivery of within the frame the law asserts.

Thank you for your time on this matter.

This is a brief overview and some important facts:

Timeline of the LGBT movement in NJ:

December 21, 2006 – NJ State law establishing civil unions

January 2010: TRENTON, NJ – After 90 minutes of debate, the NJ State Senate voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

December 13, 2010 – CA – Passed the FAIR Act Requiring LGBT History to be taught in public schools

January 6, 2011: NJ State law enacting the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights

February 16, 2012: NJ - A bill, S1, legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey, passes both houses of the legislature.

February: 2012 – NJ Governor Christie Keeps His Promise to Veto Gay Marriage Bill

March 26, 2012 – NJ State law funding the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights and creating an implementation task force (the start of discriminating against deeply held religious views and family values in all NJ Public Schools)

June 2013: The federal government began to recognize state-sanctioned same-sex marriages after the June 2013 decision of the United States Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Windsor.

October 2013: Same-sex marriage became legal in New Jersey in October of 2013.

July 21, 2017: NJ State law mandating that the New Jersey Department of Education provide guidance to public schools about policies for transgender students (This was the first step to strip parental rights in the schools).

November 2017: Murphy wins the NJ election for Governor

Governor Candidate

Philip Murphy Democrat 1,166,911 55.7%

Kim Guadagno Republican 883,973 42.2

January 16, 2018: Phil Murphy sworn in, replaces Chris Christie as N.J. Governor

Here is the history/timeline of the NJ LGBT Curriculum Law

S1569 Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Bills and Joint Resolutions Signed by the Governor

2/5/2018 Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee (Less than three weeks after Governor Murphy was sworn into office!) 6/18/2018 Transferred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee 6/18/2018 Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading 6/21/2018 Senate Amendment (32-0) (Weinberg) 6/25/2018 Passed by the Senate (27-8) 6/25/2018 Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee 12/6/2018 Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading 12/17/2018 Substituted for A1335 (1R) 12/17/2018 Passed by the Assembly (52-10-15) 12/17/2018 Received in the Senate, 2nd Reading on Concurrence 12/17/2018 Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (27-5) 1/31/2019 Approved P.L.2019, c.6. THE TEXT OF THE LAW:

CHAPTER 6

An Act concerning instruction and instructional materials in public schools and supplementing chapter 35 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

C.18A:35-4.35 History of disabled and LGBT persons included in middle and high school curriculum.

1. A board of education shall include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students as part of the district’s implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.

C.18A:35-4.36 Policies, procedures pertaining to inclusive instructional materials.

2. A board of education shall have policies and procedures in place pertaining to the selection of instructional materials to implement the requirements of section 1 of this act. When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools of the district, a board of education shall adopt inclusive instructional materials that portray the cultural and economic diversity of society including the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, where appropriate.

3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the 2020-2021 school year.

Approved January 31, 2019.

January 2019 – NJ - Team PYC started to work against the implementation of this law

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