Bill > A3172

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This bill establishes a 19-member Task Force on Approved Private Schools for Students with Disabilities. The task force will study various issues associated with improving and streamlining the tuition-setting process, funding, and fiscal accountability of approved private schools for students with disabilities (APSSD). The task force will include in its study a comparison of the actual costs to taxpayers of educating students at APSSDs and the post-graduation outcomes of these students to the actual costs to taxpayers of educating students at comparable public programs serving similar students and the post-graduation outcomes of these students. The task force will be comprised of the Commissioner of Education and 18 members appointed by the Governor. The Governor's appointees will include: a member of the State Board of Education; a parent or guardian of a student attending an APSSD; a board member of an APSSD; two accountants or auditors familiar with the fiscal provisions of the State Board of Education regulations governing APSSDs; one representative of ASAH; one representative of the Council of Private Schools for Children with Special Needs; one representative of the Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform; one representative of the Special Needs Advocacy Network; one representative of the Arc of New Jersey; one representative of Autism New Jersey; one representative of the Advocates for Children of New Jersey; one representative of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators; one representative of the New Jersey School Boards Association; one representative of the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials; one representative of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association; one representative of the New Jersey Education Association; and one director of special services from a school district. The task force is required to issue a final report with its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Commissioner of Education no later than one year after the task force organizes.

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Carol Murphy (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 02/24/2020)

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