Bill Text: NJ S1685 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides supplemental enrollment growth aid to districts that experienced significant enrollment growth; appropriates $21,881,000 to DOE.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-17 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S1685 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-S1685-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JIM WHELAN
District 2 (Atlantic)
SYNOPSIS
Provides supplemental enrollment growth aid to districts that experienced significant enrollment growth; appropriates $21,881,000 to DOE.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State school aid for school districts that experienced significant enrollment growth, supplementing P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.), and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Enrollment growth aid for each eligible school district shall be calculated as follows:
EGA = (RE07 - RE01) x PPA01
where
RE07 means the school district's actual resident enrollment as of the last school day prior to October 16, 2007;
RE01 means the school district's actual resident enrollment as of the last school day prior to October 16, 2001; and
PPA01 means the total amount of State school aid, excluding debt service aid and extraordinary special education costs aid, awarded to a school district in the 2001-2002 school year divided by the school district's actual resident enrollment as of the last school day prior to October 16, 2001.
b. A school district shall be eligible to receive enrollment growth aid if the district's resident enrollment on the last school day prior to October 16, 2007 is at least 25% greater than the district's resident enrollment on the last school day prior to October 16, 2001. A county vocational school district, a non-operating school district, and a school district that received State aid pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2012, c.37, shall not be eligible to receive enrollment growth aid pursuant to the provisions of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
2. There is appropriated from the Property Tax Relief Fund to the Department of Education the sum of $21,881,000 to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first be applicable to the first full school year beginning after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides enrollment growth aid to school districts that experienced significant enrollment growth between October 2001 and October 2007. Specifically, a school district would be eligible to receive additional State aid if the October 2007 resident enrollment is at least 25 percent greater than the October 2001 resident enrollment. The additional aid would equal the amount of State aid per pupil received by the district in the 2001-2002 school year multiplied by the change in the resident enrollment between October 2001 and October 2007. Non-operating school districts, county vocational school districts, and school districts that received additional State aid pursuant to P.L.2012, c.37 would not be eligible to receive additional aid under this bill.
P.L.2012, c.37 provided additional State aid to school districts that experienced significant increases in student enrollment between October 2008 and October 2011. This bill provides similar assistance to districts with enrollment increases prior to 2008.
