New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 23A - FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY, EFFICIENCY AND BUDGETING PROCEDURES › Subchapter 17 - TUITION PUBLIC SCHOOLS › Section 6A:23A-17.1 - Method of determining tuition rates for regular public schools

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a)
				For the purposes of this subchapter, a district board of education does not
				include an educational services commission or jointure commission.
(b) The term "actual cost per student" for
				determining the tuition rate or rates for a given year referred to in
				N.J.S.A.
				18A:38-19 and
				18A:46-21 means the local cost
				per student in average daily enrollment, based upon audited expenditures for
				that year for the purpose for which the tuition rate is being determined and
				consistent with the grade/program categories in
				N.J.S.A.
				18A:7F-50 and
				18A:7F-55, that is, regular
				education classes: preschool and kindergarten, grades one through five, grades
				six through eight, and grades nine through 12; and special class programs as
				defined in
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:14-4.7. Districts that receive preschool
				education aid shall determine an actual cost per student only for kindergarten
				students. Pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:13A-2.1, districts that receive preschool
				education aid and charge tuition to another district and/or parent or guardian,
				as permitted under N.J.A.C. 6A:13A, may charge any amount, not to exceed the
				per pupil amount established pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				18A:7F-54.
1. The receiving district board of education
				shall include in its calculation all expenditures for each purpose except
				Federal and State special revenue fund expenditures and those specifically
				excluded in (e)5 below.
2. "Average
				daily enrollment," for the purpose of determining the "actual cost per
				student," means the sum of the days present and absent of all students enrolled
				in the register or registers of the program for which the rate is being
				determined during the year divided by the number of days school was actually in
				session, but in no event shall the divisor be less than 180 days.
3. Beginning in the 2008-09 school year, a
				receiving district board of education shall phase-out the reduction of the
				"actual cost per pupil" by the amount of Abbott Parity Remedy Aid, Educational
				Opportunity Aid and Discretionary Educational Opportunity Aid pursuant to
				section
				61 of
				P.L.
				2007, c. 260. The
				receiving district shall reduce as appropriate the "actual cost per student"
				for all grade and program categories by the total amount of the above aid
				categories received in the 2007-08 school year as follows: .80 in the 2008-09
				school year, .60 in the 2009-10 school year, .40 in the 2010-11 school year,
				and .20 in the 2011-12 school year. For the 2012-2013 school year and
				thereafter, no reduction shall be made to the "actual cost per pupil" for this
				purpose. The receiving district board of education shall make such reductions
				in accordance with the option selected in (c) below for certification of the
				"actual cost per student" for each tuition category.