NJ A5935

Charter schools must use random selection for enrollment when applications exceed available spaces and cannot establish criteria to evaluate prospective students or impose enrollment qualifications beyond the lottery process

Schools must designate a student placement liaison responsible for coordinating transitions for incoming and exiting students, tracking enrollment data, and conducting exit interviews for non-graduating students who leave

Charter schools must annually report to the Commissioner of Education the number of exiting students, including last attendance dates, reasons for leaving, and subsequent educational placements

Non-resident students at charter schools face restrictions on interscholastic athletics participation: they must live within 20 miles of the school, and students enrolling in grade 11 must wait one year to participate while grade 12 enrollees cannot participate at all

Charter schools offering interscholastic athletics must join a voluntary athletic association approved by the Commissioner, with the association's rules becoming board policy