NJSA 18A:54-20.1. Enrollment of pupils in county vocational schools, funding

(a) The board of education of each school district or regional school district in any county in which there is a county vocational school district shall send to any of the schools of the county vocational school district each pupil who resides in the school district or regional school district and who has applied for admission to and has been accepted for attendance at any of the schools of the county vocational school district. The board of education shall pay tuition for each of these pupils to the county vocational school district pursuant to subsection c. of this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the board of education of a school district or regional school district maintaining a vocational school or schools pursuant to article 2 of chapter 54 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

(b) The board of education of a county vocational school district shall receive pupils from districts without the county so far as their facilities may permit.

(c) The board of education of a county vocational school district shall receive such funds as may be appropriated by the county pursuant to N.J.S.18A:54-29.2 and shall be entitled to collect and receive from the sending districts in which each pupil attending the vocational school resides, for the tuition of that pupil, except for a post-secondary vocational education pupil, a sum not to exceed the actual cost per pupil as determined for each vocational program classification, according to rules prescribed by the commissioner and approved by the State board. Whenever funds have been appropriated by the county, the county vocational school district may charge a fee in addition to tuition for any pupils who are not residents of the county. The fee shall not exceed the amount of the county's per pupil appropriation to the county vocational school district.

(d) The tuition and nonresident fee, if any, shall be established not later than January 15 in advance of the school year by the board of education. The tuition for each program category shall be at the same rate per pupil for each sending district whether within or without the county, and 10% of the tuition amount and nonresident fee, if any, shall be paid on the first of each month from September to June by or on behalf of the board of education of each sending district.

(e) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1991, c.62).

L.1990,c.52,s.71; amended 1991,c.62,s.24.

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NJAC 6A:19-3.1 Access to vocational-technical instruction offered

(a) All students shall be guaranteed the right to apply to and, if accepted, to attend a county vocational school. The sending district shall be responsible for the tuition and transportation costs for students admitted to a county vocational school.

(b) Students shall be permitted to enroll in programs of vocational instruction offered by local district boards of education other than their resident district so long as the resident local district board of education agrees to pay the tuition and transportation costs and does not offer an identical type of program, which is approved and meets or exceeds current program performance standards, with the same Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code, and as long as space is available for additional enrollees in the programs offered by the receiving district board of education.

(c) Students shall be admitted for enrollment in classes and provided instruction on the basis of their potential for achieving the occupational or other objective of such instruction.

(d) The county vocational schools and their designated representatives shall have reasonable opportunity, during school hours, to present information about the county vocational schools’ programs to students in local district schools in grades 6 through 12. No school district may deny a county vocational school reasonable opportunity to make such presentations, or otherwise inhibit student access to such information.