N.J. Admin. Code § 6A:30-3.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 19, October 7, 2024

Section 6A:30-3.2 - District Performance Review

(a) As part of the comprehensive review, unless N.J.A.C. 6A:30-3.1(d) applies, each school district shall complete a District Performance Review. The District Performance Review is incorporated in this chapter as the chapter Appendices (Appendix A and Appendix B), which is the form that school districts shall use in completing the self-assessment. All school districts, with the exception of county special services school districts, shall use Appendix A to complete the self-assessment. All county specials services school districts shall use Appendix B to complete the self-assessment.

(b) To complete the District Performance Review, the CSA shall take the following steps:

1. Convene a committee to assist in completing the District Performance Review. The CSA shall determine the total number of people that will serve on the committee. The CSA shall appoint to the committee the following persons and may include other persons with approval of the district board of education:

i. CSA;

ii. One or more members of the school district's administrative staff;

iii. One or more teaching personnel, representative of different grade levels, and/or schools in the school district;

iv. The business administrator and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, as well as other appropriate school district level personnel as determined by the CSA;

v. One or more member representatives of the educational staff's local collective bargaining unit as selected by the local collective bargaining unit. The member representatives may include the teaching personnel required under (b)1iii above; and

vi. One or more members of the district board of education selected by the district board of education.

2. Ensure the process used by the committee in completing the District Performance Review provides for participation and input by all committee members;

3. Consult with the committee in formulating a response to all weighted quality performance indicators of each component of school district effectiveness;

4. Ensure the responses in the school district's District Performance Review encompass and reflect circumstances that exist in the school district; and

5. Ensure all responses to the District Performance Review can be verified by data and supporting documentation, or otherwise. The CSA shall provide the verification to the Department upon request.

(c) The executive county superintendent shall provide technical assistance, as needed, to the CSA and the school district's committee formed to complete the District Performance Review.

(d) The district board of education may establish a district board of education subcommittee to consult with the committee formed to complete the District Performance Review. The district board of education also may monitor the progress of the committee completing the District Performance Review by requiring periodic reporting to the district board of education at public meetings.

(e) Upon completion of the proposed responses to the District Performance Review, the CSA shall sign a declaration page attesting to the accuracy of the responses in the report to the best of his or her knowledge. Each member of the committee shall be given the opportunity to sign the declaration page to attest to his or her participation in completion of the District Performance Review. If a member of the committee refuses to sign the declaration page, the member's name shall be written on the form with the notation "refused to sign."

(f) Upon completion of the proposed responses to the District Performance Review, the district board of education shall fix a date, place, and time for the holding of a public meeting, which may be a regularly scheduled district board of education meeting, to review the proposed responses to the District Performance Review and declaration page for approval by resolution. The district board of education shall do the following with respect to the meeting:

1. Post the proposed responses to the District Performance Review and declaration page on the school district's Internet site at least five working days prior to the meeting date. The district board of education also shall make the proposed responses and declaration page available for examination by the public at the district board of education offices or another reasonable location;

2. Cause notice of the meeting to be published, pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq. The notice shall inform the public that the District Performance Review and declaration page will be discussed at the meeting and of the times and manner in which members of the public may view the proposed responses to the District Performance Review; and

3. Provide, at the public meeting, the public with the opportunity to comment and be heard with respect to the proposed responses to the District Performance Review. The district board of education also shall provide the public with the opportunity to submit written comments prior to the meeting.

(g) The District Performance Review, the declaration page, and the district board of education resolution approving the District Performance Review shall be submitted to the appropriate executive county superintendent's office by November 15 or at another time designated by the Commissioner if he or she has directed a school district to undergo an immediate comprehensive review, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:7A-11 and N.J.A.C. 6A:30-3.1(a).

1. If the district board of education does not approve all sections of the District Performance Review as submitted by the CSA, the district board of education may adopt a resolution indicating the District Performance Review sections approved and the sections with which the district board of education takes exception.

(h) Upon a showing of good cause, the district board of education may request from the Department a reasonable time extension for submission of the District Performance Review.

(i) Failure by a school district to conduct or submit a District Performance Review, including a declaration page approved by the district board of education pursuant to this section, may result in the withholding of State aid, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:55-2, or, under appropriate circumstances, the initiation of intervention activities as set forth at N.J.A.C. 6A:30-6.2.

N.J. Admin. Code § 6A:30-3.2

Amended by 49 N.J.R. 3681(a), effective 12/4/2017