Bill Text: NJ A1415 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A1415 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1415-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 1415

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Dunn and Assemblyman DiMaio

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires school district to provide majority of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act concerning preschool programs and supplementing P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.).

 

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

 

     1.    a.  A school district that receives preschool education aid pursuant to section 12 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-54) shall ensure that no less than 50 percent of preschool pupil placements are provided at licensed child care provider programs.  The remaining preschool pupil placements shall be provided in district programs and Head Start programs.   

     b.    Upon application, a school district may be granted a waiver by the Department of Education of the requirements of subsection a. of this section if sufficient preschool pupil placements are not available at licensed child care provider programs within the school district.  A school district that requests a waiver shall provide such information as the Department of Education specifies to justify the request.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect in the first full school year following the date of enactment. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires a school district receiving preschool education aid through the "School Funding Reform Act of 2008"  (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) to provide no less than 50 percent of preschool pupil placements at licensed child care provider programs.  The remaining preschool pupil placements will be provided in district programs and Head Start programs.   

     The bill permits, upon application, a school district to be granted a waiver by the Department of Education of the bill's requirements if sufficient preschool pupil placements are not available at licensed child care provider programs within the school district.  A school district that requests a waiver is required to provide such information as the Department of Education specifies to justify the request.

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