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NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-64 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-64 - Determination of amount of State school aid.

18A:7F-64 Determination of amount of State school aid.  2. When determining the amount of State school aid that shall be awarded to a school district pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or any other law, the Commissioner of Education shall not consider a school district's receipt of federal funds pursuant to section 8002, 8003, 8007, or 8008 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. s.7702, 7703, 7707, or 7708) in any manner that would cause the school district to be awarded less State school aid than the district would have been awarded had the district not received the federal funds. Such funds shall not be considered when calculating the district's undesignated general fund balance pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1996, c.138 (C.18A:7F-7). L.2015, c.46, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-66 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-66 - Efficiency of expenditures.

18A:7F-66 Efficiency of expenditures.  2. In the case of a school district that receives commercial valuation stabilization aid pursuant to section 1 of this act, the commissioner may take such action as is deemed necessary and appropriate to ensure the efficiency of school district expenditures.  L.2015, c.143, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-67 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-67 - Definitions relative to financing of school districts.

18A:7F-67 Definitions relative to financing of school districts.  3. As used in P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.): "State aid differential" means the difference between the sum of a school district's or county vocational school district's allocations of equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security categorical aid, transportation aid, adjustment aid, and non-SFRA aids in the prebudget year, and the sum of equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security categorical aid, and transportation aid as calculated for the budget year in each category in accordance with the provisions of sections 11, 13, 14, and 15 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-53, C.18A:7F-55, C.18A:7F-56, and C.18A:7F-57), respectively. "Non-SFRA aids" means the sum of supplemental enrollment growth aid, per pupil growth aid, PARCC readiness aid, professional learning community aid, under adequacy aid, and host district support aid received by a school district in the prebudget year. L.2018, c.67, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-69 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-69 - Aid to county vocational school district.

18A:7F-69 Aid to county vocational school district.  5. In the 2019-2020 school year, and in each school year thereafter, a county vocational school district shall receive vocational expansion stabilization aid in such an amount to ensure that the district receives the greater of the amount of State aid calculated pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.) or the sum of the district's State aid received in the 2017-2018 school year. L.2018, c.67, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-70 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-70 - Determination as to whether district is spending above or below adequacy.

18A:7F-70 Determination as to whether district is spending above or below adequacy.  1. For the purpose of determining whether a school district or county vocational school district is spending above or below adequacy, the commissioner shall compare the sum from the prebudget year its equalization aid calculated pursuant to section 11 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-53), special education categorical aid as calculated pursuant to section 13 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-55), security categorical aid as calculated pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-56), and the general fund tax levy with the district's adequacy budget, as calculated pursuant to section 9 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-51), special education categorical aid as calculated pursuant to section 13 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-55), and security categorical aid as calculated pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-56). L.2018, c.67, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7F-71 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7F-71 - Military impact aid.

18A:7F-71 Military impact aid.  1. In addition to any other State aid provided pursuant to P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.), a school district may receive military impact aid if, in the prebudget year, the school district received a Basic Support Payment of federal Impact Aid under section 7003 of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. s.7703) and the district provides free public education to federally connected children whose parents are on active duty in the uniformed services. The amount of military impact aid provided to a district pursuant to this section shall be calculated as follows: MIA = (PPLTL - PPIA) x REFCMSwhere PPLTL is the per pupil general fund tax levy, which is derived by dividing the prebudget year general fund tax levy by resident enrollment, without the inclusion of federally connected children whose parents are on active duty in the uniformed services and who otherwise are included in the calculation of resident enrollment as defined pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-45); PPIA is the per pupil federal impact aid amount, which is the result of dividing the amount of a school district's Basic Support Payment received in the prebudget year by the number of federally connected children whose parents are on active duty in the uniformed services; and REFCMS is the resident enrollment of federally connected children whose parents are on active duty in the uniformed services;A school district shall not receive military impact aid pursuant to this section if the difference between PPTL and PPIA is negative. L.2021, c.283.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-1 - Short title.

18A:7G-1 Short title.  1. Sections 1 through 30 and 57 through 71 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.), sections 14 through 17 of P.L.2007, c.137 (C.18A:7G-45 through C.18A:7G-48), and sections 8 through 11 of P.L.2008, c.39 (C.18A:7G-14.1 et al.) shall be known and may be cited as the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act." L.2000, c.72, s.1; amended 2008, c.39, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-2 - Findings, declarations relative to construction, financing of public school facilities.

18A:7G-2 Findings, declarations relative to construction, financing of public school facilities.  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Constitution of the State of New Jersey requires the Legislature to provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools and this legislative responsibility includes ensuring that students are educated in physical facilities that are safe, healthy, and conducive to learning. b. Inadequacies in the quality, utility, and safety of educational facilities have arisen among local school districts of this State. In order to ensure that the Legislature's constitutional responsibility for adequate educational facilities is met, there is a need to establish an efficiency standard for educational facilities at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels which will assure that the core curriculum content standards are taught to all of the children of the State in a setting which facilitates and promotes that learning.  c. Educational infrastructure inadequacies are greatest in the SDA districts where maintenance has been deferred and new construction has not been initiated due to concerns about cost. To remedy the facilities inadequacies of the SDA districts, the State must promptly engage in a facilities needs assessment and fund the entire cost of repairing, renovating, and constructing the new school facilities determined by the Commissioner of Education to be required to meet the school facilities efficiency standards in the SDA districts. In other districts, the State must also identify need in view of anticipated growth in school population, and must contribute to the cost of the renovation and construction of new facilities to ensure the provision of a thorough and efficient education in those districts. d. While providing that the educational infrastructure meets the requirements of a thorough and efficient education, the State must also protect the interests of taxpayers who will bear the burden of this obligation. Design of school facilities should incorporate maximum operating efficiencies and new technologies to advance the energy efficiency of school facilities and the efficiency of other school building systems, construction should be achieved in as efficient a manner as possible, and a mechanism to assure proper maintenance of new facilities should be established and implemented, in order to reduce the overall cost of the program and to preserve this infrastructure investment. L.2000, c.72, s.2; amended 2007, c.260, s.38.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-5.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-5.1 - No construction of school within 1,000 feet of an existing entry, exit ramp of a highway; exceptions.

18A:7G-5.1 No construction of school within 1,000 feet of an existing entry, exit ramp of a highway; exceptions.  5. a. A school shall not be constructed within 1,000 feet of an existing entry or exit ramp of a highway unless, during the planning and design of the proposed school, the local board of education and, in the case of a school to be constructed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the authority, or, in the case of a nonpublic school, the board thereof, determines that there is no feasible or prudent alternative. Prior to making this determination, the local board of education and, in the case of a school to be constructed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the authority, or, in the case of a nonpublic school, the board thereof, shall notify the members of the Legislature representing the district in which the school is proposed to be constructed and the Departments of Transportation and Education that construction of a school is being considered within 1,000 feet of the entry or exit ramp of a highway. The legislators shall be afforded the opportunity to submit comments to the local board of education, and, in the case of a school being constructed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the authority, or the board of the nonpublic school, as the case may be, and the Departments of Transportation and Education. If the determination is subsequently made that there is no feasible or prudent alternative, the Department of Transportation shall be so notified and the Department of Transportation shall review the proposed location of the school, identify potential safety hazards, and make recommendations to abate or minimize such hazards consistent with the study required pursuant to section 7 of this act, or if the study is not completed, consistent with such preliminary findings and recommendations which may exist. The Department of Transportation shall complete its review within 90 days of receiving notification of the determination, and shall report its findings to the local board of education and, in the case of a school being constructed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, to the authority, or to the board of the nonpublic school, the Department of Education and the members of the Legislature representing the legislative district in which the school is proposed to be constructed. b. As a condition of granting approval of a proposed school facilities project, the Department of Education shall require a local board of education to include with a board's application for approval: (1) a certification that the proposed school is not within 1,000 feet of an entry or exit ramp of a highway; or (2) a response to each item of advice to mitigate safety hazards that the Department of Transportation has issued based on the Department of Transportation's review of the school project. L.2007, c.308, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-8 - Calculation of number of unhoused students.

18A:7G-8 Calculation of number of unhoused students.  8. a. The number of unhoused students shall be calculated as the number of FTE students who are projected to be enrolled in preschool for children with disabilities, preschool, kindergarten, grades 1 through 12, and special education services pupil educational programs provided in a district within five years, which are in excess of the functional capacity of the district's current school facilities or the functional capacity of the school facilities which will be available within five years other than the school facilities for which the preliminary eligible costs are determined, based upon the district's long-range facilities plan. The determination of unhoused capacity shall separately consider projected enrollments and functional capacities at the early childhood and elementary (preschool through grade 5), middle (grades 6 through 8), and high school (grades 9 through 12) levels. For the purpose of calculating the district's unhoused students, special education services students shall be considered part of the grade level to which the students' chronological age corresponds. In the event that the commissioner approves a school facilities project which involves the construction of a new school facility to replace an existing school facility, which shall accommodate both the unhoused students and the students in the existing school facility, the calculation of the number of unhoused students shall include the number of students currently attending the existing facility which is to be replaced. b. Approved area for unhoused students (AU) shall be determined according to the following formula: AU = (UEC x SEC) + (UE x SE) + (UM x SM) + (UH x SH) where UEC, UE, UM, UH are the numbers of unhoused students in the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school enrollment categories, respectively; and SEC, SE, SM, SH are the area allowances per FTE student in preschool and kindergarten, grades 1 through 5, grades 6 through 8, and grades 9 through 12, respectively. Area allowances shall be determined based on the grade level of a student regardless of the grade configurations used in the school buildings of the district. The minimum area allowance per FTE student shall be as follows: Preschool through grade 5 125 sq. ft. Grades 6 through 8 134 sq. ft. Grades 9 through 12 151 sq. ft. The commissioner, in consultation with the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of Community Affairs, shall adopt regulations that establish a process for the consideration of special circumstances, in addition to those provided in section 5 of P.L.2010, c.72 (C.18A:7G-5), in which the area allowances per FTE student established pursuant to this subsection may be adjusted. Any decision made by the commissioner pursuant to those regulations shall be made in consultation with the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of Community Affairs. L.2000, c.72, s.8; amended 2017, c.131, s.18.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-10 - Issuance of school bonds, certificates of participation, determination of aid.

18A:7G-10 Issuance of school bonds, certificates of participation, determination of aid.  10. For each issuance of school bonds or certificates of participation issued for a school facilities project approved by the commissioner prior to the effective date of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.): Aid is the sum of Awhere A = B x EQAID/ABand where B is the district's total debt service or lease purchase payment for the individual issuance for the fiscal year; EQAID is the district's equalization aid amount determined pursuant to section 11 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7G-53); and AB is the district's adequacy budget determined pursuant to section 9 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-51).  For county special services school districts, EQAID/AB shall be that of the county vocational school district in the same county. L.2000, c.72, s.10; amended 2007, c.260, s.43.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-11 - Approval of local share of project.

18A:7G-11 Approval of local share of project.  11. A school facilities project shall not be constructed unless the local share of the project, if any, is approved in accordance with the provisions for the approval of capital projects pursuant to N.J.S.18A:22-1 et seq., N.J.S.18A:24-1 et seq. and P.L.1991, c.139 (C.18A:7A-46.1 et seq.), as applicable to the district.  L.2000,c.72,s.11.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-12 - Submission of project to commissioner for approval of local share.

18A:7G-12 Submission of project to commissioner for approval of local share.  12. A district, other than a district under full State intervention, that sought approval pursuant to section 11 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-11) of a school facilities project without excess costs but failed to receive that approval, and within the three years prior to that, sought and failed to receive approval of that school facilities project with or without excess costs, may submit the project to the commissioner and request that the commissioner approve the project and authorize the issuance of school bonds for the local share of the project. Upon receipt of the request, the commissioner shall review the school facilities project and determine whether the project is necessary for the provision of a thorough and efficient system of education in the district. If the commissioner concludes that the project is necessary, the commissioner may approve the project without excess costs and authorize the issuance of school bonds to fund the local share. In addition to the amount of taxes determined by the legal voters of the district at the annual school election, the secretary of the board of education shall certify the amount required for the repayment of the interest and principal of the bonds required to fund the local share amount approved by the commissioner in the same manner required for interest and debt redemption charges pursuant to N.J.S.18A:22-33, and the amount so certified shall be included in the taxes assessed, levied and collected in the municipality or municipalities comprising the school district for those purposes. Any school facilities project authorized pursuant to this section shall be undertaken by the development authority in accordance with an agreement between the development authority and the district. Nothing in this section shall preclude a school district under full State intervention from using the process established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.139 (C.18A:7A-46.2) to obtain the approval of the commissioner to undertake a school facilities project. L.2000, c.72, s.12; amended 2007, c.137, s.23.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-13.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-13.1 - Audits conducted of certain projects.

18A:7G-13.1 Audits conducted of certain projects.  9. The development authority, in consultation with the State Comptroller, shall cause an audit to be conducted of a school facilities project financed pursuant to P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.) which has a State share that exceeds $10,000,000. This provision shall not be construed to limit the authority of the development authority or the State Comptroller to conduct audits of other school facilities projects as provided by law. L.2008, c.39, s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-14.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-14.1 - Priority for projects of certain county vocational school districts.

18A:7G-14.1 Priority for projects of certain county vocational school districts.  8. The school facilities projects of a county vocational school district that did not receive State support for its projects from the $100,000,000 of bond proceeds originally allocated for the State share of county vocational school district school facilities projects pursuant to section 14 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-14) shall receive priority in the allocation of the bond proceeds authorized for the State share of county vocational school district school facilities projects pursuant to P.L.2008, c.39 (C.18A:7G-14.1 et al.) provided that the county vocational school district demonstrates to the commissioner the need for the school facilities projects. L.2008, c.39, s.8.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-15 - Election by district to receive one-time grant for State share.

18A:7G-15 Election by district to receive one-time grant for State share.  15. a. In the case of a district other than an SDA district, for any project approved by the commissioner after the effective date of this act, the district may elect to receive a one-time grant for the State share of the project in accordance with the provisions of subsection b. of this section rather than annual debt service aid under section 9 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-9). The State share payable to the district shall equal the product of the project's final eligible costs and the district aid percentage or 40%, whichever is greater. b. The commissioner shall establish a process for the annual allocation of grant funding. Under that process, the commissioner shall annually notify districts of the date on which the commissioner shall begin to receive applications for grant funding. A district shall have 90 days from that date to submit an application to the commissioner. The commissioner shall make a decision on a district's application within 90 days of the submission of all such applications and shall allocate the grant funding in accordance with the priority process established pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection m. of section 5 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-5). c. The development authority shall provide grant funding for the State's share of the final eligible costs of a school facilities project pursuant to an agreement between the district and the development authority which shall, in addition to other terms and conditions, set forth the terms of disbursement of the State share. The funding of the State share shall not commence until the district secures financing for the local share. L.2000, c.72, s.15; amended 2007, c.137, s.26; 2007, c.260, s.46; 2008, c.39, s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 18A:7G-15.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 18A - Education|Section 18A:7G-15.1 - Rules, regulations.

18A:7G-15.1 Rules, regulations.  11. Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to the contrary, the commissioner may adopt, immediately upon filing with the Office of Administrative Law, such rules and regulations as the commissioner deems necessary to implement the process for the allocation of grant funding as established pursuant to subsection b. of section 15 of P.L.2000, c.72 (C.18A:7G-15) which shall be effective for a period not to exceed 12 months. The regulations shall thereafter be amended, adopted, or readopted by the State Board of Education in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.). L.2008, c.39, s.11.