Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Assemblyman ROBERT D. CLIFTON
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Inganamort, Assemblywoman Fantasia and Assemblyman Myhre
SYNOPSIS
Requires appointment of State monitor to school districts that receive 70 percent or more of revenue from State aid.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning school district accountability and supplementing P.L.2006, c.15 (C.18A:7A-54 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Education shall appoint a State monitor and additional staff, as necessary, to provide direct oversight of a board of education’s business operations and personnel matters if the percentage of the school district’s revenue derived from State aid revenue sources is 70 percent or greater of total revenue according to the most recent information as reported by the Department of Education in the Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending; except that the commissioner shall not appoint a State monitor pursuant to this section in any school district in which a State monitor has been appointed pursuant to subsection a. of section 2 of P.L.2006, c.15 (C.18A:7A-55).
b. The State monitor appointed pursuant to this section shall have all the powers and duties set forth pursuant to subsection b. of section 2 of P.L.2006, c.15 (C.18A:7A-55), except those included in paragraph (3) of that subsection.
c. The provisions of subsections c., d., and f. of section 2 of P.L.2006, c.15 (C.18A:7A-55) shall apply in the case of a State monitor appointed pursuant to this section.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a State monitor to be appointed in a school district if the percentage of the school district’s revenue derived from State aid is 70 percent or greater of total revenue according to the most recent information reported in the Department of Education’s Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending. A monitor appointed pursuant to the bill’s provisions is to have direct oversight of a board of education’s business operations and personnel matters and generally have the same powers as a State monitor appointed pursuant to current State law known as the “School District Fiscal Accountability Act.”
According to the 2024 version
of the Taxpayers’ Guide to Education Spending, the following school districts received
70 percent or more of their total revenue from State sources in the 2022-2023
school year:
|
District Name |
County |
Revenue: State % |
|
Trenton Public School District |
Mercer |
86.3% |
|
Plainfield City |
Union |
84.7% |
|
Union City |
Hudson |
84.6% |
|
City Of Orange Twp. |
Essex |
83.3% |
|
Camden City |
Camden |
82.8% |
|
Bridgeton City |
Cumberland |
82.0% |
|
Elizabeth City |
Union |
81.5% |
|
Pleasantville City |
Atlantic |
81.1% |
|
Gloucester City |
Camden |
80.8% |
|
Irvington Township |
Essex |
80.8% |
|
Keansburg Boro |
Monmouth |
80.2% |
|
East Orange |
Essex |
79.9% |
|
Vineland City |
Cumberland |
79.7% |
|
New Brunswick City |
Middlesex |
79.7% |
|
Newark City |
Essex |
79.2% |
|
Paterson City |
Passaic |
78.7% |
|
Pemberton Twp. |
Burlington |
78.3% |
|
Folsom Boro |
Atlantic |
78.1% |
|
Perth Amboy City |
Middlesex |
78.1% |
|
Lindenwold Boro |
Camden |
75.6% |
|
Fairfield Twp. |
Cumberland |
75.4% |
|
Lakehurst Boro |
Ocean |
75.4% |
|
West New York Schools |
Hudson |
74.8% |
|
Cumberland Co. Vocational |
Cumberland |
74.5% |
|
Passaic City |
Passaic |
73.9% |
|
Millville City |
Cumberland |
73.2% |
|
Salem City |
Salem |
71.4% |
|
Garfield City |
Bergen |
71.2% |
|
Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional |
Salem |
70.0% |