Finding 26-27
The NUSD Board of Education’s Bylaw 9280 allows a majority of the board to censure board members for behavior that violates the NUSD Governance Team Handbook. The board has failed to use its censure power to prevent disruptive and unprofessional behavior at board meetings.
Jury report: Newark Unified School District Revisited: Unresolved Problems and New Challenges · PDF page 53
Permanent linkOfficial response
Newark Unified School District Board of Education
Partially agrees that Bylaw 9280 permits censure but disputes treating its nonuse as failure, describing censure as discretionary and questioning its preventive effect.
Read official response · PDF page 2Identifies the disputed normative claim, explains the reasons and cites the specific bylaw; this is the District’s position, not a legal ruling.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.