Galloway Township board approves submission of 2024–25 HIB self‑assessment after SSDS presentation

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The Galloway Township Board of Education voted Oct. 13 to submit the district's Student Safety Data System (SSDS) self‑assessment and supporting documentation for the 2024–25 school year, following a detailed presentation from district student‑services staff.

The action, listed as agenda item 5.5, passed on a roll call after Director of Student Services Suzanne Tausen and Supervisor of Student Services Jennifer Levin presented the district's SSDS report and school self‑assessment covering Jan. 1–June 30, 2025. Superintendent Steve Santilli introduced the presentation.

The self‑assessment and SSDS are state reporting requirements that include counts of violence, vandalism, substance offenses and weapons incidents and a separate assessment of Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) policies, investigations and prevention programming. Tausen said the presentation covered both the second report period for 2024–25 and totals for the full year: “This is just a full year report,” she said.

Why it matters: the SSDS submission and the district's HIB grade are the formal records the New Jersey Department of Education uses to evaluate how each district identifies and responds to bullying and related incidents. The self‑assessment also documents staff…