ASSEMBLY, No. 668
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION
By Assemblymen BAGGER and FELICE
An Act concerning State special education aid and amending P.L.1990, c.52.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 14 of P.L.1990,c.52 (C.18A:7D-16) is amended to read as follows:
14. Each district's special education aid shall be determined in accordance with the following calculations:
a. The number of special education aid units shall be determined by adding the products obtained by multiplying the pupils in each category by the appropriate additional cost factors. The additional cost factors shall be the following:
Special Education Categories Additional
Cost Factors
Educable........................... 0.60
Trainable.......................... 0.99
Orthopedically handicapped......... 1.70
Neurologically impaired............ 0.42
Perceptually impaired.............. 0.12
Visually handicapped............... 2.79
Auditorily handicapped............. 1.63
Communication handicapped.......... 0.84
Emotionally disturbed.............. 1.09
Socially maladjusted............... 0.67
Chronically ill.................... 2.23
Multiply handicapped............... 1.05
Resource room...................... 0.45
Autistic........................... 1.84
Preschool Handicapped, half day.... 0.30
Preschool Handicapped, full day.... 0.60
County special services school district 1.38
Regional Day schools............... 1.38
County Vocational School,
Special Education Services......... 0.59
Residential facility for the retarded.... 1.72
Day training center.................... 2.37
Residential youth center................. 1.39
Training school or correctional facility. 0.56
Child treatment center or psychiatric hospital... 1.03
Supplementary and speech instruction..... 0.18
based on the
number of
pupils
actually
receiving
such
instruction
in the prior
school year
b. The number of special education aid units for home instruction shall be determined by multiplying the number of hours of instruction actually provided in the prior school year by 0.0025.
c. For the purposes of this section, special education aid shall be paid to the districts in which the pupils reside except in the case of home, supplementary or speech instruction where aid shall be paid to the district providing the service. No tuition may be charged for such home, supplementary or speech instruction. For the 1991-92 school year special education aid for pupils enrolled in resource room programs in county vocational schools or county special services schools and for home, supplementary or speech instruction shall be paid to the districts in which the pupils reside.
d. Special education aid shall equal the number of special education aid units multiplied by the State foundation amount, as defined pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1990, c.52(C.18A:7D-6).
e. For the 1991-92 school year, aid for all pupils in preschool handicapped classes shall be calculated using the additional cost factor for half day programs. Beginning with the 1992-93 school year, both half day and full day cost factors shall be utilized.
f. For special education pupils placed in out of district special education programs, the school district shall receive special education aid equal to the greater of the special education aid for that pupil calculated pursuant to subsection d. of this section or an amount equal to one-half of the difference between the cost to the district of the out of district placement and the average cost for educating a regular
education pupil in the district.
(cf: P.L.1991, c.62, s.10)
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to State aid for the 1994-95 school year and thereafter.
STATEMENT
This bill provides additional State special education aid to school districts in order to defray the cost of the placement of pupils in special education programs outside of the district.
Under the bill, a school district will receive the greater of the special education aid generated pursuant to the existing formula or one-half of the difference between the cost to the district of the out of district placement and the average cost for educating a regular education pupil in the district.
Provides for State to pay one-half of difference between cost to school district of out of district placement of special education pupil and average cost for educating a regular education pupil in the district.