A 1618 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Eliminates use of census-based funding of special education aid in school funding law.

This bill eliminates the use of U.S. Census population data to calculate special education funding for New Jersey school districts. It changes the formula so that state aid for special education services will no longer be based on census-based population counts, instead relying on other metrics like pupil counts and cost calculations. The key mechanism removes references to "State average classification rate" and census data from the funding formulas in the 2007 school funding law (P.L.2007, c.260). This directly affects all public school districts receiving state special education aid by altering how their funding levels are determined.
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Jan 2026
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Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Jan 13, 2026
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Jan 13, 2026
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Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
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