School Board Candidates Now Have Until June 5 to File

The move from an April school board election to a November one means to run as a candidate.

Now, candidates have until June 5 to file a petition to run in November, said the county clerk's office. Today was the deadline under the April system.

Nearly every school district in , including Barnegat's, decided to move its school board election to November. Lakewood is one of the few holdouts that will still have an April eleciton.

The shift also means the Barnegat Township school budget will no longer be before voters, and will instead be decided by the school board this spring, unless the school budget grows more than 2 percent. Only if the school district presents a budget more than the 2 percent cap will it be required to put the budget before voters.

The move to a November election was allowed under a newly passed , giving districts the choice to keep an April election or move it to coincide with the general election in November.

Candidates will be listed in a separate section of the November ballot, as school board elections are nonpartisan.