Polls open at 2 p.m. Tuesday for NJ school districts with April elections
Of the state's almost 600 school districts, 16 hold spring elections, and the others have them on Election Day in November.
The districts with spring elections are: Cliffside Park, Fairview, Lodi, Garfield, Irvington, Newark, Monroe, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York, New Brunswick, Randolph, Passaic, Totowa, Byram and Westfield.
Polls will close at 8 p.m.
All state school elections were held in the spring until 2012, when a new state law allowed districts to switch their elections to November.
Some towns have switched back to April. Garfield was the latest, just making the ballot deadline in February after the school district and current board of education tried to stop the city council from making the move. Lodi changed back to the spring in 2023.
With the change, districts no longer had to seek public approval to pass their budgets unless they exceeded the then-new state-mandated 2% cap on increases.
Only voters whose districts held elections in April had a say on school spending plans, but that was recently changed.
Last year, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law that took the public budget vote away for districts with April elections unless the school district was raising taxes above the 2% cap. With bank cap exceptions, it gives a school district the opportunity to raise taxes over the 2% cap before a public vote can take place.
Check back after polls close for unofficial results.
CLIFFSIDE PARK
Lisa Frato (incumbent)
Daniel Murtagh
Kleidon Ndreu (incumbent)
Letizia Pantoliano (incumbent)
FAIRVIEW
Diane Testa (incumbent)
Francisco Martinez (incumbent)
Angelo D'Arminio
GARFIELD
Alea C. Sanchez - "Education Not Politics" (incumbent)
Bogumila "Millie" Swietek - "Education, Not Politics"
Aldo A. Munoz - "Education, Not Politics" (incumbent)
Arlene Patire - "Save Our Schools"
William J. Oddo - "Save Our Schools"
Larrisa Ihsan - "Save Our Schools"
Ismet Feratoski - "Dedication Accountability Loyalty"
Abdelkader Sardena - "Education, Community, Unity"
Richard Derrig - "Experienced Focus Leadership"
Nancy Kutsup - "Experienced Focus Leadership"
LODI
Michael Caruso - "Citizens Against Corruption"
Katie Lugo-Lisath - "Citizens Against Corruption"
Joao Mendes - "Citizens Against Corruption"
Jocelyn Anderson - "Continue the Progress"
Laura Cima - "Continue the Progress" (incumbent)
John Cannizzaro - "Continue the Progress" (incumbent)
TOTOWA
Joseph A. Parlegreco (incumbent)
RoseMarie Carr (incumbent)
Gary Bierach (incumbent)
CITY OF PASSAIC
Patricia 'Abril' Barrales-Garcia (incumbent)
Marko Kopic
Juan Arroyo
Maryann Capursi (incumbent)
Michael 'Moshe' Gross
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: These NJ school districts have April elections. See results
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