New Jersey § 18a:7a-14a

§ 18a:7a-14a.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. It is the constitutional obligation of the Legislature to provide all children

in New Jersey with a thorough and efficient system of free public schools; b. The breadth and scope of such a system are defined by the Legislature through the

commissioner and the State board pursuant to P.L.2007, c. 260 ( C.18A:7F-43 et al.) so as to insure quality educational programs for all children; c. It is imperative that the program in every school district in this State includes

all of the major elements identified as essential for that system consistent with

standards adopted pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1975, c. 212 ( C.18A:7A-10 ); d. It is the responsibility of the State to insure that any school district which

is shown to be deficient in one or more of these major elements takes corrective actions

without delay in order to remedy those deficiencies; e. This responsibility can be fulfilled, in addition to the mechanism for ensuring

compliance established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1996, c. 138 ( C.18A:7F-6 ), through an effective and efficient system of evaluation and monitoring which will

insure quality and comprehensive instructional programming in every school district

and provide for immediate and direct corrective action to insure that identified deficiencies

do not persist, and which does so within the context of the maximum of local governance

and management and the minimum of paperwork and unnecessary procedural requirements.