Court Opinion

ID: 9692355
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 15:52:28.702689+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:34.212181
License: Public Domain

STEIN, J.,
concurring.
I join the Court’s thoughtful, comprehensive, and persuasive disposition of this appeal. I write separately only to add an observation that I am confident is implicit in the Court’s opinion. The Court correctly observes that “[t]he choice to include charter schools among the array of public entities providing educational services to our pupils is a choice appropriately made by the Legislature so long as the constitutional mandate to provide a thorough and efficient system of education in New Jersey is satisfied.” Ante at 323, 753 A.2d at 691. Because the constitution authorizes the Legislature to determine the means by which a thorough and efficient education is to be provided, I read and understand the Court’s opinion as neither expressing nor implying any view about the wisdom of that legislative choice. See State v. Des Marets, 92 N.J. 62, 65, 455 A.2d 1074 (1983) (stating that “We do not pass on the wisdom of this legislation’s mandatory three year imprisonment or the wisdom of its imposition on the offenses covered. That is a matter solely for the Legislature to decide.”)
For affirmance as modified — Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices STEIN, COLEMAN, LONG, LaVECCHIA, HAVEY and CARCHMAN — 7.
Opposed — None.