New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 19 - CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND STANDARDS › Subchapter 7 - PRIVATE CAREER SCHOOLS › Section 6A:19-7.5 - Operations

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A private
				career school shall ensure that education and training programs are designed
				and delivered in such a way that all students are able to demonstrate the
				knowledge and skills specified in the approved program application according to
				6A:19-7.3.
(b) A private career school shall ensure the
				quality of education and training facilities through the use of nationally
				recognized standards of operation approved by one of the national accrediting
				agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
(c) A private career school shall assure the
				Department of the quality of education in the following areas:
1. Curricula;
2. Grading policies;
3. Program length in clock hours or credit
				hours (if accredited), the subject matters taught, and the objectives of the
				certificates or credentials offered;
4. Success with respect to student
				achievement in relation to mission, including, as appropriate, consideration of
				course completion, State licensing examination passing rates, and job placement
				rates; and
5. Personnel:
i. The private career school director shall
				have completed six years of academic, military, and/or job-related experience
				beyond high school graduation that includes a minimum of two years of practical
				experience in a supervisory, administrative, or teaching position;
ii. Faculty of the private career school
				shall meet the following qualifications:
(1)
				Proof of a high school diploma or GED;
(2) Proof of successful completion of a
				curriculum and instruction course offered through an accredited college;
				and
(3) Competency in the
				subject(s) to be taught as demonstrated by possession of one of the following:
(A) An appropriate instructional certificate
				issued by the State Board of Examiners, or a comparable teaching certificate
				issued by a recognized certifying authority in another state with which the
				State Board of Examiners has reciprocity;
(B) An industry certification in the
				occupational area to be taught and at least two years of documented full-time
				employment experience in the occupational area within the past 10
				years;
(C) A baccalaureate degree
				from a recognized institution with a major or specialization in the subject to
				be taught;
(D) Evidence of
				attainment of a journeyperson's status by possessing a certificate of
				completion of a registered apprenticeship training in the subject to be taught,
				with at least two years of documented full-time employment experience within
				the past 10 years;
(E) A
				certificate of completion in the occupational area to be taught from an
				approved private career school or hold the appropriate State-issued
				occupational license in the occupational area to be taught, and a minimum of
				two years of documented full-time employment in the occupation, within the past
				10 years;
(F) An associate degree
				from an accredited college, with a major or specialization in the subject to be
				taught, and a minimum of two years of documented full-time employment in the
				occupational area to be taught within the past 10 years; or
(G) A minimum of four years of documented
				full-time employment in the occupational area to be taught within the past 10
				years.