Bill Text: NJ A2642 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits final granting of charter to school in which application contained material misstatement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-05 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A2642 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2642-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits final granting of charter to school in which application contained material misstatement.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the final granting of a charter and supplementing P.L.1995, c.426.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The commissioner shall not grant a charter to a charter school applicant if the commissioner, subsequent to the initial approval of the charter school application, determines that the application contained a material misstatement or withheld pertinent information related to any of the information required pursuant to subsections a. through n. of section 5 of P.L.1995, c.426 (C.18A:36A-5) or State Board of Education regulations.
b. If a charter school applicant submits a charter school application that contains a material misstatement or withheld pertinent information related to any of the information required pursuant to subsections a. through n. of section 5 of P.L.1995, c.426 (C.18A:36A-5) or State Board of Education regulations, the applicant shall not be allowed to submit another charter school application for three school years.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that the Commissioner of Education may not grant a charter to a charter school applicant if, after initially approving the application, it is determined that the application contained a material misstatement or omission of relevant information. Additionally, an applicant that submitted a charter school application that contained a material misstatement or omitted relevant information would not be allowed to submit another charter school application for a period of three school years.
Under current State Board of Education regulations, the commissioner approves or denies a charter school application no later than January 15, for applicants seeking fast track approval, or September 30 for all other applicants. However, the final charter is granted at a later date, no later than July 15, providing time for the commissioner to obtain additional information and possibly determine that information included in the application is inaccurate. The bill precludes the final granting of the charter if the inaccuracy is material to the approval of the application.
