By Wendy Greenberg
Three incumbents on the Princeton Public Schools (PPS) Board of Education (BOE) have filed to run for three seats for three-year terms in the upcoming Tuesday, November 3 election. However, they will run unopposed.
The BOE members are Beth Behrend, Adam Bierman, and Eleanor Hubbard.
Behrend was president of the Board from 2019 to 2021, and is seeking her fourth consecutive term. She co-chairs the Long Term Planning, Operations, and Policy committees. She has a law degree and masters of public international law from Michigan Law School and is a retired corporate attorney and nonprofit professional, according to an online biography at Good Government Coalition of New Jersey. She is a former president of the Riverside Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), and is founding director and secretary of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, and was vice president of the Princeton PTO Council.
Hubbard, seeking reelection to a second term on the BOE, co-chairs the Equity and Student Achievement committees and serves on the Policy and Personnel
committees. She is a parent to three children in the public schools, according to EleanorhubbardforBOE.com. After graduating from Harvard, she taught in New York City as a teaching fellow in the South Bronx, returned to Harvard for a Ph.D. in history, and taught at Princeton University. She has a long record of service to the community. Including with the Princeton University-affiliated early childhood center UNOW, and has been active in the Riverside School PTO.
Bierman, also seeking reelection to a second term, serves on the Board’s Equity and Operations committees. The Princeton school district graduate said by email that public service is a family tradition —his mother taught in Princeton for more than 30 years, and his father served as School Board president in the late 1960s. “He passed away recently, and I want to honor both his and my late mother’s legacy of empathy, hard work, and integrity. I hope to make them proud,” he said.
Bierman has taught social studies in Latin America and Asia and now works at a school for teen mothers in Trenton, where he helped start Reading Recovery, verbal de-escalation training, Business ESL, and a sex education program with Planned Parenthood.
The deadline to file a nominating petition was July 27 at 4 p.m. at the Mercer County Clerk’s Office in Trenton.
The 2025 election was a similar situation, when three candidates competed for three open seats. In the last election, now-BOE President Dafna Kendal won a fourth three-year term on the board, now-Vice President Susan Kanter won a third term, and Erica Snyder became a new member of the Board when longtime Board member Debbie Bronfeld chose not to run for reelection.