Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Charter Schools Continue to Pull Dollars from Regular Education

New N.H. law may cost Seacoast school districts hundreds of thousands | SeacoastOnline.com

NEWMARKET — Director of Pupil Services Jean Parsons warned the School Board on Thursday night that a new state law could cost the district hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
The law, SB 300, changes the state's charter school statute and requires a student's resident district to pay to transport special education students when their parents send them to charter schools outside their home district, Parsons said Thursday night.
 
This is already the law in NJ!  SUBCHAPTER 3. CHARTER SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION
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6A:27-3.1 General provisions
 
(a) Transportation or aid in lieu of transportation shall be provided to charter school students pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:39-1 et seq. A charter school shall be considered a public school offering a specialized program.

(b) The transportation of students to and from a charter school shall be the responsibility of the district board of education of the school district in which each student resides. Students who reside less than remote from their charter school are eligible for transportation in accordance with the policies of the district board of education in which they reside.
Before the law went into effect Aug. 10 in New Hampshire, the district in which the charter school was located had to pay to transport students, as long as they were subjects of individual education plans, Parsons said.
 
After attending a workshop yesterday sponsored by New Jersey Association of School Business Officials (NJASBO), representatives from the NJDOE Office of Transportation made it clear that the finacial burden to transport any student attending a Charter School resides with the Public School of Residence, i.e. the taxpayer.  Furthermore, it remains the districts reponsibility to attempt to bid the route or pay aid in lieu (AIL) at the established rate of $884.00 for the 2012-13 school year.
 
The transport must be in accordance with the Charter's school calendar and carrys with it all the rights granted to public education students:
 
6A:27-3.2 Eligibility requirements
(a) Students in kindergarten through grade eight and preschool students who meet the eligibility requirements defined in N.J.A.C. 6A:27-1.2(a) who reside more than two miles and students in grades nine through 12 who reside more than two and one-half miles from the charter school that they attend are eligible for transportation services.

(b) Special education students attending a charter school shall be eligible for transportation services if they meet the distance requirements of (a) above, or transportation is required in the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP).
(c) The charter school shall be located within the State.

Many of the same requirements and provisions are in code for tranportation of students attending School Choice programs as well:

SUBCHAPTER 4. SCHOOL CHOICE TRANSPORTATION
6A:27-4.1 General provisions
(a) Transportation or aid in lieu of transportation shall be provided pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:39-1 et seq. A choice school shall be considered a public school offering a specialized program.

(b) The transportation of students to and from a choice school shall be the responsibility of the district board of education of the school district in which each student resides. 

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