Title 18A, Title 18A: EDUCATION

18A:30-3.4. Accumulation of sick leave credited; use; accumulation; leave irrevocable The accumulation of sick leave days from another district, when granted in accordance with this chapter, shall be credited upon receipt of the certificate of the prior employer. The days of sick…

18A:30-3.5 Payment for accumulated sick leave by board of education. 44. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not pay supplemental compensation to any officer or employee for accumulated …

18A:30-3.6 Cap on compensation for unused sick leave from board of education. 3. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not pay supplemental compensation to any officer or employee for accu…

18A:30-4. Sick leave, physician's certificate, requirements; definitions. 18A:30-4. a. In case of sick leave claimed due to personal illness or injury, a board of education may require a physician's certificate to be filed with the secretary of the board of education in order to …

18A:30-5. Commissioner to enforce chapter The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this chapter to the extent of withholding state school moneys from school districts violating any of the provisions of this chapter. L.1967, c.271.

18A:30-6. Prolonged absence beyond sick leave period When absence, under the circumstances described in section 18A:30-1 of this article, exceeds the annual sick leave and the accumulated sick leave, the board of education may pay any such person each day's salary less the pay of…

18A:30-7. Power of boards of education to pay salaries Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of the board of education to fix either by rule or by individual consideration, the payment of salary in cases of absence not constituting sick leave, or to grant sick leave over…

18A:30-8. Athletic competition on world, Pan American or Olympic level; reimbursement by state Any school district employee who qualifies as a member of the United States team for athletic competition on the world, Pan American or Olympic level, in a sport contested in either Pan…

18A:30-9 Use of accumulated vacation leave by board of education. 46. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, an officer or employee of a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, who does not take vacation leave that accrues on or after th…

18A:30-9.1 Use of accrued vacation leave by board of education employee. 5. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, an officer or employee of a board of education, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, who does not take vacation leave that accrues in a giv…

18A:31-1. Teachers' institutes and meetings, when held, etc. Teachers' institutes, and teachers' meetings called by the commissioner, shall be held pursuant to rules prescribed by the state board. L.1967, c.271.

18A:31-2. Attendance at conventions of New Jersey Education Association Whenever any full-time teaching staff member of any board of education of any local school district or regional school district or of a county vocational school or any secretary, or office clerk applies to th…

18A:32-1. Appropriation for establishment and maintenance Whenever in any county there shall have been raised by subscription a sum of money not less than $100.00 for the establishment of a library of pedagogical books for the use of the teachers of the public schools, the direct…

18A:32-2. Committee to select books and manage library The county superintendent and three teachers of public schools in the county appointed by him shall constitute a committee to select and purchase books and apparatus for the library, and to make rules for the management, use,…

18A:33-1. District to furnish suitable facilities; adoption of courses of study Each school district shall provide, for all children who reside in the district and are required to attend the public schools therein and those who reside therein or elsewhere and are entitled or perm…

18A:33-1.1. Substandard facility; approval; inspection; abandonment No substandard facility shall be approved for more than two consecutive years unless it is inspected by the Bureau of Facility Planning Services in the Division of Finance to insure that the buildings meet health…

18A:33-1.2. Rules and regulations The State Board of Education shall develop rules and regulations for the approval of substandard emergency building facilities for the accommodation of school pupils which regulations shall insure that the buildings meet health, safety and educat…

18A:33-10. Establishment of School Breakfast Program in certain schools 2. a. (1) A public school operated by a local or regional school district of the State in which 20 percent or more of the students enrolled in the school on October 1 of the preceding school year were federal…

18A:33-10.1 Breakfast program established in schools, certain; plan, form submission. 6. a. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.2003, c.4 (C.18A:33-10) to the contrary, following the enactment of P.L.2022, c.104 (C.18A:33-3.2 et al.), each public school in the …

18A:33-11. Implementation of school breakfast program by district. 3. In implementing a school lunch program, pursuant to P.L.1974, c.53 (C.18A:33-4 et seq.), a school breakfast program, pursuant to P.L.2003, c.4 (C.18A:33-9 et seq.) or section 6 of P.L.2022, c.104 (C.18A:33-10.1…

18A:33-11.1 "Breakfast after the bell" program; report to Governor, Legislature. 1. a. A public school operated by a school district that participates in the federal School Breakfast Program, or a nonpublic school participating in the federal School Breakfast Program, is encourag…

18A:33-11.2 Findings, declarations relative to the "breakfast after the bell" program. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that numerous studies document that childhood hunger impedes learning and can cause lifelong health problems; and that, in New Jersey, tens of thousands of…

18A:33-11.3 Establishment of "breakfast after the bell" program in certain public schools. 2. a. Every public school in which 70 percent or more of the students enrolled in the school on or before the last school day before October 16 of the preceding school year were federally e…

18A:33-11.5 Guidelines. 4. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall develop guidelines to facilitate the implementation and operation of breakfast after the bell programs by schools in the State, in accordance with the provisions of s…

18A:33-11.6 Rules, regulations. 5. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the …

18A:33-11.7 Department of Agriculture, provision of "breakfast after the bell" per meal financial supplement; annual report; funds appropriation. 1. a. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall provide a 10-cent per breakfast supplemen…

18A:33-13. Construction of act 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent a school district not subject to this act from implementing a school breakfast program pursuant to section 2 of this act. L.2003,c.4,s.5.

18A:33-14. Rules, regulations 6. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), concerning the revision of school breakfast p…

18A:33-14.1 Report of nonparticipation in school meal programs. 1. a. (1) Each school district or nonpublic school that participates in the National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program shall take steps to maximize the use of federal resources and to minim…

18A:33-14.2 Annual review of costs, school meal programs; rules, regulations. 7. a. A school district or nonpublic school that participates in the National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program shall annually review the costs being expended thereby, in asso…

18A:33-14.3 Working Group on School Food Security. 8. a. Not more than 180 days after the effective date of P.L.2023, c.336 (C.18A:33-14.2 et al.), the Office of the Food Security Advocate, established pursuant to P.L.2021, c.242 (C.52:27J-1 et seq.), shall establish a Working Gr…

18A:33-14a School breakfast, minimum nutritional standards, eligibility. 12. a. (1) School breakfasts made available to students under a school breakfast program or a breakfast after the bell program shall meet minimum nutritional standards, established by the United States Depar…

18A:33-14b Findings, declarations. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Child and adolescent obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States and poor diet combined with the lack of physical activity negatively impacts students' health and their ability and moti…

18A:33-14c National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program nutrition standards, compliance for participants. 2. a. A public school and a nonpublic school participating in the National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program shall comply with the nutr…

18A:33-15 Findings, declarations relative to food, beverages sold to certain school pupils. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that obesity, which affects 61% of American adults, and childhood obesity…

18A:33-16 Regulation of items sold, served, given away on school property. 2. a. As of September 2007, the following items shall not be served, sold or given away as a free promotion anywhere on school property at any time before the end of the school day, including items served …

18A:33-17 Applicability to certain nonpublic schools. 3. The provisions of this act shall apply to nonpublic schools that participate in the Child Nutrition Programs as defined by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. L.2007,c.45,s.3.

18A:33-18 Rules, regulations; compliance monitoring. 4. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this act and shall monitor compliance …

18A:33-19 Nonpreemption of more stringent policies. 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the board of education of a public school district or the governing board or chief school administrator of a nonpublic school from establishing more stringent nutritional pol…

18A:33-2 Penalty for failure to provide proper facilities. 18A:33-2. When any school district shall fail to provide such facilities and courses of study, the county superintendent shall, by order in writing, approved in writing by the commissioner and transmitted to the board sec…

18A:33-2.1. Closing high school; contracting with another district; referendum No board of education of a school district providing high school education in its own high school shall propose to close its high school and to contract with another district or districts to provide hi…

18A:33-20 Public schools authorized to serve certain produce grown in community gardens. 1. a. As used in this section, "community garden" means public or private land upon which individuals have the opportunity to garden on pieces of land that they do not individually own. b. Co…

18A:33-21 Provision of school meals. 1. a. (1) In the event that a participating school district or nonpublic school determines that a student's unsubsidized school breakfast or unsubsidized school lunch bill is in arrears, the participating school district or nonpublic school sh…

18A:33-21.1 State required to pay difference between federal allocation and total cost of reduced price breakfast, lunch. 1. a. Notwithstanding any other law, or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, a student who is enrolled in a participating school dist…

18A:33-21a Short title. 1. Section 1 of P.L.2015, c.15 (C.18A:33-21) and section 16 of P.L.2022, c.104 (C.18A:33-21b1), shall be known and may be cited as the "Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act." L.2020, c.29, s.1; amended 2022, c.104, s.15.

18A:33-21b1 Information provided to parent, guardian. 16. a. At the beginning of each school year, or upon initial enrollment in the case of a student who enrolls during the school year, a participating school district or nonpublic school shall provide each student's parent or gu…