Bill Text: NJ S2616 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S2616 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S2616-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that any superintendent salary caps adopted by the commissioner will apply to charter school administrators.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the salaries of charter school administrators and supplementing P.L.1995, c.426 (C.18A:36A-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Any salary caps adopted by the commissioner pursuant to the authority granted under subsection j. of N.J.S.18A:7-8 shall also apply to a charter school lead person, or other person assuming administrative responsibility of a charter school.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
Under current law, the executive county superintendent of schools is required to review and approve, according to standards adopted by the Commissioner of Education, all employment contracts for superintendents of schools, assistant superintendents of schools, and school business administrators in school districts within the county. Pursuant to this section of law, the commissioner adopted regulations at N.J.A.C.6A:23A-1.2 establishing salary caps for superintendents based upon the enrollment in the district. This bill provides that the salary caps are to also apply to a charter school lead person, or other person assuming administrative responsibility of a charter school.
