League of Women Voters

Carolyn Lack urges the Montclair Township Council to permit accessory dwelling units.

Montclair would also add two more members to its current seven-member board. It would do away with its Board of School Estimate.

The League of Women voters argues and elected school board wouldn't necessarily be more democratic than Montclair's appointed one.

Since 1963 there have been five failed attempts to move Montclair to an elected BOE, the most recent in 2009. At that time, Montclair was one of 46 Type II districts, but many of them switched to elected BOEs after the legislature passed a law allowing schools to move their elections from April to November. 

By The League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area The League of Women Voters was created based on the belief that women should have the right to vote. Founded in Chicago in 1920, just six months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment, this nonpartisan organization continues to support voters’ rights.  ...

The forum’s theme, “Pandemic Platform,” covered how COVID-19 affects all aspects of life in the schools, both in the short and long term. 

Women and the right to vote.

A look at what the right to vote means to women, in Montclair and elsewhere, as the 19th Amendment making women's suffrage law turns 100.

by JOHANNA EDGE for Montclair Local The author is a member of the board of directors of the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area. The League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area is celebrating not only its founding 100 years ago but also 100 years of universal suffrage for American women...

By ROBIN WOODS for Montclair Local “I do not consider you an American unless you vote,” was the blunt opening of comments by Essex County Clerk Christopher J. Durkin at an event hosted by the League of Women Voters on Saturday. The LWV...