For any purpose under the provisions of this title, or of the local bond law, the commissioner is authorized and empowered to certify, or to cause to be certified, the grade level of instruction then being provided, or to be thereafter provided, by the school facilities of any school district, or the amount of bonds authorized or issued, or to be authorized or issued, by any school district for the purpose of providing school facilities to provide any higher grade level of instruction than being provided by such school district.
N.J.S. § 18A:24-27.1