ASSEMBLY, No. 911

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

 

 

By Assemblymen ROCCO and WOLFE

 

 

 

An Act regarding monitoring of public schools and supplementing chapter 7A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

    1. a. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a school district which for two consecutive years since it was last certified as providing a thorough and efficient education pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1975, c.212 (C.18A:7A-14) is rated as acceptable on all pupil performance indicators and all pupil behavior indicators as adopted by the State Board of Education for the evaluation of the performance of each public school district, shall not be required to be certified again for a period of ten years from the date it was last certified or at such time as it fails to meet all pupil performance and pupil behavior indicators, whichever occurs earlier.

    b. The Commissioner of Education may require the recertification of any district prior to the expiration of the ten year period if the commissioner deems it to be necessary.

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill provides that a school district which meets all pupil performance indicators and all pupil behavior indicators as adopted by the State Board of Education, for two consecutive years since it was last certified by the State, shall not be required to be certified again for a period of ten years from the date the district was last certified, or until such time as it fails to meet all pupil performance or pupil behavior indicators, whichever occurs earlier. Currently a school district must be monitored every seven years.

    Under the bill's provisions, the commissioner may require the recertification of any district prior to the expiration of the ten year period if the commissioner deems it necessary.

 

 

                             

 

Provides that any school district rated acceptable on pupil performance and pupil behavior indicators need not be monitored for ten years.