A 891 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Makes various changes in the charter school program in regard to student enrollment procedures, charter revocation, and monitoring of charter schools.

This bill makes several changes to New Jersey's charter school program to improve accountability and oversight. It requires charter schools to use a lottery system for enrollment when demand exceeds capacity, report student demographic data annually to the Department of Education, and maintain waiting lists with demographic information. The bill establishes new grounds for charter revocation, including failure to meet student learning standards, discrimination, fiscal issues, or failing to achieve demographic comparability with the district of residence. Charter schools will now be subject to the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum for evaluation, and the commissioner must hold public hearings and conduct independent studies of the charter school program every three years. These changes directly affect charter schools, their students, and the school districts of residence.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
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Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
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