Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:46-22

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Board: means the board of education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • District: means a school district. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • State board: means the State Board of Education. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
18A:46-22. Any board of education which has entered or hereafter shall enter its pupils with disabilities in the schools of a receiving district may not withdraw such pupils for the purpose of entering them in the schools of another district unless good and sufficient reason exists for such a change and unless an application therefor is made and approved by the commissioner. Either the receiving or sending board of education, if dissatisfied with the determination of the commissioner on any such application, may appeal to the state board, and, in its discretion, that body may affirm, reverse, or modify the commissioner’s determination.

Amended 2017, c.131, s.52.