Establishes Task Force on Approved Private Schools for Students with Disabilities to study various issues including improving and streamlining tuition-setting process, funding, and fiscal accountability.

This bill establishes a 19-member Task Force to study issues affecting New Jersey's approved private schools for students with disabilities, which serve approximately 11,000 students with complex disabilities. The task force will examine ways to improve the tuition-setting process, funding mechanisms, and fiscal accountability of these schools, including comparing actual taxpayer costs and post-graduation outcomes between private placements and comparable public school programs. It will review areas like hiring practices, salary guidelines, business operations, and allowable costs. The task force, appointed by the Governor and including school officials, parents, advocates, and auditors, must issue a final report with recommendations within one year. This study aims to address concerns about proposed state rules that could impact these schools and the students they serve.