Bill Text: NJ S1174 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-04 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S1174 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1174-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Allows representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending school districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning representation on the boards of education of certain school districts involved in sending-receiving relationships and supplementing P.L.1995, c.8 (C.18A:38-8.1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1995, c.8 (C.18A:38-8.2) or any other law or regulation to the contrary, if the pupils of a sending school district comprise less than 10% of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving school district in which the pupils of the sending school district are enrolled, the sending school district shall have one representative on the board of education of the receiving school district if the following criteria are met:
(1) the sending school district, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, is located in a county of the second class that has a population of less than 275,000;
(2) the receiving school district, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, is located in a county of the fifth class that has a population of less than 275,000;
(3) the board of education of the sending school district requests, by the adoption of a board resolution, to have one representative on the board of education of the receiving school district; and,
(4) the request is approved by the recorded affirmative vote of the majority of members of the board of education of the receiving school district.
b. The representative of a sending school district board of education shall be designated by the sending school district board of education at a meeting of the board which is closest in time to the annual organizational meeting of the receiving school district board of education.
c. The representative of a sending school district board of education appointed to a receiving school district board of education pursuant to this section shall be in addition to the members of the board of education of a Type I or Type II school district provided pursuant to chapter 12 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. The representative of the sending school district board of education shall be eligible to vote on those matters authorized pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1995, c.8 (C.18A:38-8.1).
d. A sending school district that has a representative appointed to the board of education of a receiving school district pursuant to this section shall not be entitled to a second representative on the board of education of the receiving school district if in any subsequent school year the pupils of the sending school district comprise at least 10% of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving school district in which the pupils of the sending school district are enrolled.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that certain sending school districts involved in a sending-receiving relationship may request to have one representative on the board of education of the receiving school district if the students of the sending district comprise less than 10% of the total enrollment of the pupils in the grades of the receiving district in which the students of the sending district are enrolled. The board of education of the receiving school district can authorize the addition of one representative from the sending school district by an affirmative vote of the majority of its members.
In order to request representation on the board of education of the receiving school district, the sending school district must be located in, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, a county of the second class with a population of less than 275,000 and send students to a school district located in, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, a county of the fifth class with a population of less than 275,000. These criteria would allow the board of education of the Newfield Borough School District to request to have a representative on the school board of the Buena Regional School District.
