{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "New Jersey", "state_number": "30", "postal_code": "NJ", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-10-07", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/nj/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23254321", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "New Jersey educates its deaf and hard of hearing students in many places at once. The state runs one school for the deaf, the Marie H. Katzenbach School in West Trenton, founded in 1883, which enrolled 94 students in the 2024-25 school year, is budgeted for fewer than ninety after that and, according to the Governor's budget, ended its residential program in 2026 even though the school's web pages still describe one. Four other programs share the state's designation as regional centers: the Bergen County Special Services continuum in Paramus, the Gloucester County Special Services programs in Sewell, and the Lake Drive School in Mountain Lakes, which opened in 1969 as a day alternative to the state school. Beyond them, the Department of Education lists classroom programs in about a dozen districts, from Newark's Bruce Street School, open since 1910, to a high school program in Berkeley Heights and a vocational program in Passaic County, plus three private schools and several itinerant services that send teachers of the deaf into ordinary schools. In the 2024-25 school year the state counted 1,311 students aged five to twenty-one with an auditory impairment classification and 19 who are deafblind; almost half were in general education classes most of the day. We read the website of every one of the 696 public school units in the state. Twenty-two publish a program or named deaf education staff, about seventy mention deaf or hard of hearing students only in a screening schedule, an eligibility list or a link to a state document, and the rest publish nothing on the subject. Where a district says nothing, its deaf students are still counted and still served somewhere; the state's own figures simply do not show where.", "frame": { "statement": "The frame is every unit the New Jersey Department of Education counts as a local educational agency in its School Directory of 5 October 2026, read with the Common Core of Data 2024-25 beside it: 537 operating school districts, 16 districts operating no school, 8 county special services school districts, 10 educational services commissions, 3 jointure commissions, 21 county vocational school districts, 84 charter schools, 3 renaissance school projects (listed in the Public Schools file under their own district codes), the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf (a state operated agency with a directory row) and the 3 state agency education units CCD carries with rows in the state's own count, 686 units in all, plus the 2 charter schools the CCD still lists whose charters the Department revoked effective 30 June 2025 and the 8 county juvenile detention centers the CCD carries as state operated agencies (ruled in frame by the owner on 8 October 2026; carried as the CCD lists them, juvenile justice education not being a surveyed sector at this version): 696 rows. Each charter school and renaissance school project is its own unit because N.J.A.C. 6A:14-1.3 makes its board of trustees the district board of education for special education. Every row was read on its own website in the rendered browser on 5 and 6 October 2026, the directory's website field compared with the host read (D-043), and every keyword hit reviewed by the compiler against its capture.", "frame_count": 696, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "Approved private schools for students with disabilities (in state)", "count": 134, "basis": "Private receiving schools under N.J.A.C. 6A:14-7.1(a), not local educational agencies; swept through the Department's directory and its deaf education program list, with the three deaf-serving schools the list names (Summit Speech School, The Center for Education, First Children) carried as entities." }, { "class": "CCD rows for consolidated or closed districts", "count": 5, "basis": "The three Monmouth districts consolidated into Henry Hudson Regional and the two consolidated into Greenwich Stow Creek Regional are predecessors, not units; the successors are in the frame." }, { "class": "Schools within units (the Public Schools file)", "count": 2524, "basis": "Schools are not units; the file was used to name the deaf and hard of hearing schools and programs within units (the Bergen continuum, Bruce Street, Lake Drive, the two Katzenbach schools) and to supply the renaissance projects." } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Deaf-blindness is carried where the state's count names it: 19 pupils classified Deaf-Blindness in 2024-25 (21 in 2022-23, 23 in 2023-24), with 16 districts showing Deaf-Blindness as a student group in the environments table. The New Jersey Center on Deafblindness keeps the federal registry on a different definition; its count was not on the pages read and is not reconciled with the state's classification count.", "readable_subset": 690, "weak_evidence_count": 12 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "A district page describing a county special services district's, an educational services commission's, the Katzenbach School's or another district's program as its provider codes MENTION with the provider in the mechanism column; a bare link to a provider codes NONE FOUND with the provider recorded (Midland Park's link to the Bergen County Special Services deaf programs).", "PROGRAM on a district row requires the district's own staff or program on its own site, or the Department's statewide program list naming the district as the operator; a program that stands on the Department's list while the district's own site is silent is coded PROGRAM with the weak flag and the silence recorded (Egg Harbor Township, Galloway, Mount Laurel, Upper Township, Vineland, Mount Olive, Passaic County Technical-Vocational).", "A county special services school district, an educational services commission, a jointure commission and the Katzenbach School are coded from their own sites as their own units; a charter school or renaissance school project is its own unit, coded from its own site.", "The eligibility recital (the N.J.A.C. 6A:14-3.5 classification list naming Auditory Impairment on a district page, or a federal category list, or a glossary entry) codes MENTION; a nurse hearing screening schedule or intake statement alone codes MENTION; the Deaf Student's Bill of Rights brochure, the New Jersey Parent Resource Guide or another Department deaf education document linked alone codes MENTION.", "A service named only as a list item (Teacher of the Deaf services, educational audiology, sign language interpreters among staff categories) is coded MENTION under D-037 and tabled with the D-037 mark in the evidence form.", "A named Teacher of the Deaf on a district's own staff page codes PROGRAM with the weak flag (South River, Kinnelon, Hillsborough); a described in-district Teacher of the Deaf service codes PROGRAM with the weak flag (East Hanover). The weak flag qualifies PROGRAM only.", "Standing false positives, not hearing content: federal nutrition boilerplate naming ASL, website accessibility boilerplate, procedural safeguards text (PRISE), \"hearing\" as a proceeding (board, HIB, due process, meal benefit hearing officials), \"AI\" for artificial intelligence, SEMI Medicaid consent lists naming Audiology, Section 504 definitions of major life activities, child find developmental-area text, and links to outside agencies (the Division, ASHA) with the agency recorded.", "NOT OPERATING under D-045 is decided for every district operating no school and for the two revoked charters, with the receiving district named from the district's own Annual Comprehensive Financial Report on the Department's host; a suppressed child-count cell is kept as the state's asterisk, never filled.", "An American Sign Language world language course or student club sets the ASL-course note without changing the coverage code (Butler, South Amboy, Hunterdon Central, Rancocas Valley, Passaic County Technical-Vocational).", "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every pupil is counted in the sending district, and the regional providers' pupils are invisible in the district table." ], "method_limitations": "Six limitations bound this run. First, the statutes were read late and from a compilation: the Legislature's hosts were closed to every route on 5 October, and the full-text compilation (STATUTES-TEXT.zip, the owner's download of 8 October under D-050) was read after the coding was done, so the statute texts confirm or correct the believed citations (N.J.S.A. 18A:61, 18A:46-2.7 to 2.15, 18A:46-13, 18A:46-29, 18A:36A, 18A:36C, 18A:7F-55, 18A:6-52, 18A:54-1, 34:1-69.1 et seq.) rather than having guided the reading; the Title 26 newborn screening act was not cut and stays on the Department's rules. Second, the closure read is a keyword screen over the pages the probe reached (a per-unit page cap of about twenty pages from the home page and the special services paths), so a program published deep in a site or inside a PDF the probe did not open can be missed; the seeded reads of the Department-listed units and the hit-rich units reduce but do not remove this. Third, six units remain NOT VERIFIABLE after two attempts and are not attempted again in this run under D-040 (East Orange Community Charter, Clinton-Glen Gardner, Middlesex Borough and Upper Pittsgrove, whose hosts did not answer on either day; the Bergen and Burlington county juvenile detention centers, which have no website in any source); three more non-operating districts whose hosts also failed are coded NOT OPERATING on the directory, CCD and ACFR instruments. Fourth, the state suppresses 260 of 650 district Auditory Impairment cells with no published rule and publishes no count for the regional providers, so the publication measure is a floor. Fifth, the Bergen County Special Services Blackboard pages rendered as thin shells in the probe and were read through the seeded Department pages and the district's own program pages; the Union College catalog was captured as rendered text because its host is http-only. Sixth, no Internet Archive lookup was run in this run (the archive status file is empty), so every source rests on the compiler's captures and digests alone.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 22, "percent_of_frame": 3.2, "percent_of_readable": 3.2 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 67, "percent_of_frame": 9.6, "percent_of_readable": 9.7 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 583, "percent_of_frame": 83.8, "percent_of_readable": 84.5 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 6, "percent_of_frame": 0.9, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 }, { "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 18, "percent_of_frame": 2.6, "percent_of_readable": 2.6 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "Charter school", "code": "MENTION", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 80 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Charter school (charter revoked effective 30 June 2025)", "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "County special services school district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "County special services school district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "County special services school district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "County vocational school district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "County vocational school district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "County vocational school district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 19 }, { "agency_type": "Educational services commission", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "Educational services commission", "code": "MENTION", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Educational services commission", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 6 }, { "agency_type": "Jointure commission", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Renaissance school project", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 16 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 57 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 461 }, { "agency_type": "School district", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "School district (operating no school)", "code": "NOT OPERATING", "count": 16 }, { "agency_type": "State agency education unit", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "State operated agency (county juvenile detention center)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 6 }, { "agency_type": "State operated agency (county juvenile detention center)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "State school", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Lake Drive School (Mountain Lakes)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Bruce Street School (Newark)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Bergen County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 1, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "033170 Midland Park School District" ] }, { "provider": "Burlington County Special Services School District (Educational Services Unit)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Gloucester County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Atlantic County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Cape May County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Mercer County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Middlesex County Special Services School District (Middlesex Regional Educational Services Commission)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Warren County Special Services School District", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Educational Services Commission of New Jersey", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 7, "affirmative_list": [ "110540 Bridgeton City School District", "195180 Tewksbury Township School District", "250945 Colts Neck Township School District", "273410 Mount Arlington Public School District", "292940 Manchester Township School District", "351810 Green Brook Township Public School District", "394670 Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District" ] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": true, "identified_population": { "value": 1311, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 4, "note": "Pupils aged 5 to 21 classified Auditory Impairment statewide, school year 2024-25, age as of 15 October 2024; deaf-blindness 19. Preschoolers carry the single classification Preschool Child with a Disability, so the identified population under kindergarten is not visible by category in the state's instrument. The federal 618 file prints the same cells." }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": 155, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 4, "note": "Sum of the published Auditory Impairment cells of the units coded PROGRAM: Newark 55, Toms River 21, Jersey City 18, Hillsborough 15, Egg Harbor Township 12, Vineland 9, Neptune Township 8, Galloway 6, South River 6, Mount Laurel 5. Seven PROGRAM units carry a suppressed cell (Mountain Lakes, Berkeley Heights, Upper Township, Mount Olive, Passaic County Technical-Vocational, East Hanover, Kinnelon) and five have no row at all because the state counts every pupil in the sending district (the Katzenbach School, Bergen County Special Services, Burlington County Special Services, Gloucester County Special Services, the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey)." }, "note": "Of 1,311 pupils classified Auditory Impairment statewide in 2024-25, 155 (11.8 percent) sit in a unit that both publishes a deaf or hard of hearing program on its own site or on the Department's list and has a published count. The measure understates the programs' reach by construction: the state publishes no count for the five regional providers, suppresses the cell of seven program units, and prints an unsuppressed Districtwide count for 390 of 650 district rows (summing to 818) against the statewide 1,311, leaving 493 pupils in 260 suppressed cells. No suppression rule is published; unsuppressed values include 58 values from 1 to 9, so the rule is not a simple threshold." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Placement criteria and IEP communication considerations", "figure": { "value": "for a student who is deaf or hard of hearing the IEP team shall consider the student's language and communication needs, opportunities for direct communication with peers and professional personnel in the student's language and communication mode, academic level and full range of needs including direct instruction in that mode", "year": "2026", "source_n": 9, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:14-3.7 (special factors). The Department publishes a communication plan form and the 2024 Educational Planning Guide (source 41) beside the rule." } }, { "indicator": "Auditory impairment eligibility (audiometric gates)", "figure": { "value": "\"Auditory impairment\" corresponds to \"auditorily handicapped\" and to the federal categories of deafness or hearing impairment, defined as an inability to hear within normal limits due to physical impairment or dysfunction of auditory mechanisms, with sub-definitions \"Deafness\" and \"Hearing impairment\"; an audiological evaluation and a speech and language evaluation are required; no decibel threshold", "year": "2026", "source_n": 9, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:14-3.5(c)1; deaf/blindness is (c)7. The classification label is \"Auditory impairment\" (believed fact 9 partly held). Every preschooler is classified \"Preschool Child with a Disability\"." } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments, auditory impairment (by category)", "figure": { "value": "of 1,311 pupils aged 5 to 21 classified Auditory Impairment in 2024-25: 638 in general education 80 percent or more of the day, 267 at 40 to 79 percent, 131 under 40 percent, 231 in a separate school, 3 in a residential facility, 0 homebound, 0 correctional, 41 parentally placed in private schools; deaf-blindness 10, 3, 0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 1 of 19", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 4, "note": "The state's workbook and the federal file (source 6) print the same cells; the district environments table shows Auditory Impairment as a student group in 346 districts." } }, { "indicator": "American Sign Language as world-language credit", "figure": { "value": "\"Pursuant to P.L. 2015, c. 303, a language other than English shall include, but not be limited to, American Sign Language, Latin, and Native American languages\"", "year": "2026", "source_n": 11, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:8-5.1 (believed fact 23 supported in rule). Units publishing an ASL course or club on their own sites in this run: Butler (ASL Levels 1 to 4), South Amboy (ASL as an elementary special), Hunterdon Central (ASL Club), Rancocas Valley (Sign Language Club), Passaic County Technical-Vocational (ASL world language per the Department's list); a catalog caveat applies (the screen read the pages the probe reached)." } }, { "indicator": "Language and literacy development law (LEAD-K-type)", "figure": { "value": "no language acquisition statute of the LEAD-K type is enacted; the 2019 legislation created the Working Group on Deaf Education (reported 2019) and the Deaf Student's Bill of Rights, and the Department publishes a Language Acquisition Rating Scale and end-of-year rating reports for preschool children; A2456 and S2242 (2026-2027) are pending", "year": "2026", "source_n": 42, "note": "Believed fact 6 stands. The Working Group report (source 38) and the rating scale (source 41) are the Department's instruments; the statutes are read (source 52): N.J.S.A. 18A:46-2.14 requires the Department and the Department of Health's Early Intervention Program to annually collect and publicly report language-acquisition data for children from birth to five; no such annual statewide report was found on the pages read." } }, { "indicator": "Deaf Student's Bill of Rights", "figure": { "value": "a statement of responsibility to school districts on meeting the needs of students who are deaf or hard of hearing, ages 3 to 21, signed August 2019; published by the Department as a brochure in eleven languages; six district sites link the Parent Resource Guide or another Department deaf education document on their special education pages (Mount Holly, Delsea Regional, Morris, Salem City, Pohatcong, Wall)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 39, "note": "The Department's description (source 15); N.J.S.A. 18A:46-2.8 is read (source 52): directive in form (\"School districts shall provide\"), limited by 18A:46-2.9 to the rights the federal IDEA and section 504 already give. The district list is from the coverage rows coded MENTION on a Department document link." } }, { "indicator": "Educational interpreter standard", "figure": { "value": "the educational interpreter endorsement is required for sign language interpreting, oral interpreting and cued speech transliteration in preschool through grade 12; the standard certificate requires an associate or higher degree, the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment at a minimum score of 3.5 and the EIPA Written Test, plus twelve credits or a certificate of educational interpreting; an emergency certificate exists at EIPA 3.5", "year": "2026", "source_n": 10, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-14.18 (believed fact 7 held in rule)." } }, { "indicator": "Identified population by agency (baseline)", "figure": { "value": "650 district rows carry an Auditory Impairment column; 390 print an unsuppressed count summing to 818 (Newark 55, Elizabeth 29, Passaic 26, Trenton 23, Paterson 22, Toms River 21, Lakewood 20, Jersey City 18) and 260 print an asterisk; the residual against the statewide 1,311 is 493; no row exists for the Katzenbach School, any county special services district, educational services commission or jointure, or any district operating no school", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 4, "note": "No suppression rule is published; unsuppressed values include 58 values from 1 to 9 and 304 zeros. The state offices have rows." } }, { "indicator": "Regional Deaf Education Centers of Excellence", "figure": { "value": "five programs designated by the Department as pilot Regional Deaf Education Centers of Excellence: Bergen County Special Services continuum, Gloucester County Special Services Schools for Neurodiversity and CRESS, the Katzenbach School, Lake Drive", "year": "2026", "source_n": 15, "note": "Stated on the Department's list with no designating instrument cited; each offers \"a menu of services that might include enrollment to out-of-district students and/or itinerant teacher services\"." } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "2022-23", "identified_hi": 1354, "identified_db": 21, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2023-24", "identified_hi": 1326, "identified_db": 23, "source_n": 5 }, { "year": "2024-25", "identified_hi": 1311, "identified_db": 19, "source_n": 4 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "populated", "amount": 6935000, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Appropriations Act, Department of Education, Operation and Support of Educational Institutions, Direct State Services line 12-5011 Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf", "citation": "FY2025 Appropriations Act, P.L.2024, c.22 (A4700), and the FY2025 Appropriations Handbook account 5011 (Direct State Services 6,935 thousand dollars) (sources 55 and 56); FY2026 (S2026) and FY2027 (S5327) Acts as context (sources 18 and 19); FY2026 budget detail page D-115 (source 57) and FY2027 budget detail page D-117 (source 17)", "note": "6,935,000 dollars in FY2025, the fiscal year funding school year 2024-25 (salaries and wages 4,030 thousand, materials and supplies 665, services other than personal 589, maintenance and fixed charges 400, special purpose transportation 40, additions and equipment 1,211), and the same amount in each of the FY2026 and FY2027 Acts. Each Act appropriates, in addition, the payments from local boards of education at the annual rate the Commissioner of Education and the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting adopt, the school's unexpended balances and any rental income, notwithstanding N.J.S.18A:61-1 and N.J.S.18A:46-13. The FY2026 budget detail prints federal funds 250 thousand and all other funds 7,156 thousand dollars for FY2025 (14,067 thousand all funds); the FY2027 detail prints 275 and 8,906 thousand for FY2027, and for FY2025 actual a gross cost per pupil of 162,809 dollars and direct State support per pupil of 68,064 dollars.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 6935000, "basis": "P.L.2024, c.22 as enacted (baseline fiscal year)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 6935000, "basis": "S2026 as signed (context)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 6935000, "basis": "S5327 as signed (context)" } ] }, { "channel": "General formula funding", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "School Funding Reform Act formula aid (Equalization Aid, Special Education Categorical Aid, Security Aid, Transportation Aid) in the Appropriations Acts", "citation": "FY2025 Appropriations Act (P.L.2024, c.22) and the FY2026 and FY2027 Acts, Department of Education state aid lines; P.L.2007, c.260 (N.J.S.A. 18A:7F-43 et seq.) named in the Acts and read in part (source 52)", "note": "The formula is read only as the Acts name it; the equalization aid amount is not carried here because the Acts' total state aid lines were not extracted for this channel. Deaf and hard of hearing pupils are funded through the special education channels below, not by a named line." }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": 1364684000, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Special Education Categorical Aid (Property Tax Relief Fund), census-based under N.J.S.A. 18A:7F-55 as the Acts name it", "citation": "FY2025 Appropriations Act (P.L.2024, c.22) and Handbook: 1,364,684,000 dollars (sources 55 and 56); FY2026 Act (S2026): 1,767,470,000; FY2027 Act (S5327): 1,783,065,000 (sources 18 and 19), each determining the aid \"using a school district's projected enrollment of students classified for special education\" notwithstanding section 13 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-55)", "note": "The aid is not category-specific; no deaf-specific share is published. The FY2025 amount is the baseline figure; the later Acts are context.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 1364684000, "basis": "P.L.2024, c.22 as enacted (baseline fiscal year)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 1767470000, "basis": "S2026 as signed (context)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 1783065000, "basis": "S5327 as signed (context)" } ] }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "populated", "amount": 420000000, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Extraordinary Special Education Costs Aid (Property Tax Relief Fund)", "citation": "FY2025 Appropriations Act (P.L.2024, c.22) and Handbook: 420,000,000 dollars (sources 55 and 56); the same amount in the FY2026 (S2026) and FY2027 (S5327) Acts (sources 18 and 19); the Comptroller's 2021 Hopatcong audit on extraordinary aid applications (source 43)", "note": "Reimburses districts for individual pupils above cost thresholds; no deaf-specific share is published.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 420000000, "basis": "P.L.2024, c.22 as enacted (baseline fiscal year)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 420000000, "basis": "S2026 as signed (context)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 420000000, "basis": "S5327 as signed (context)" } ] }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B and Part C allocations", "citation": "none read in this run", "note": "The Part C application for FFY2026 (source 23) was taken as a byte original; allocation amounts by category are not published and were not extracted." }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": 60215, "fiscal_year": "FY2025 (actual)", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Katzenbach day tuition paid by sending boards at a rate the Commissioner and the OMB Director adopt; county special services tuition under N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-17.5 to 17.7; approved private school tuition under N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-18; receiving-school contracts under N.J.A.C. 6A:14-7.1", "citation": "FY2027 budget detail page D-117 (annual payment per regular day pupil 58,461 FY2024, 60,215 FY2025 actual, 63,226 FY2026, 66,387 FY2027 estimate; residential 76,694 FY2025) (source 17); FY2026 budget detail page D-115 (FY2025 revised: 60,215 day, 76,694 residential) (source 57); the Acts' Katzenbach tuition language; N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-17 and 18", "note": "The FY2025 rate is the baseline figure. The residential program was eliminated as of fiscal 2026 (FY2027 budget detail note (a)); residential transportation under N.J.A.C. 6A:27-5.2 is cited in 6A:14-7.1(d).", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2024", "amount": 58461, "basis": "actual, per day pupil" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 60215, "basis": "actual, per day pupil (baseline fiscal year)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 63226, "basis": "revised, per day pupil (context)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 66387, "basis": "estimate, per day pupil (context)" } ] }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2026-27", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Approved private schools for students with disabilities (134 in state), tuition-funded by sending districts; three carry deaf and hard of hearing programs on the Department's list", "citation": "Department APSSD directory (source 36); N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-18; the Department's program list (source 15)", "note": "Tuition rates were not read." }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "populated", "amount": 500000, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Capital Construction line 12-5011 Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf in the FY2025 Appropriations Act (fire protection, per the FY2026 budget detail); S3364 (2026-2027) would extend Schools Development Authority grant eligibility to the school", "citation": "FY2025 Appropriations Act (P.L.2024, c.22) and Handbook, Capital Construction 12-5011: 500 thousand dollars (sources 55 and 56); FY2026 budget detail page D-116 (\"Fire Protection, Katzenbach School for the Deaf\", 500 thousand recommended for FY2026) (source 57); New Jersey Legislature, S3364, introduced 5 February 2026 (source 42)", "note": "The FY2026 and FY2027 Acts carry the Capital Construction heading for the school without an amount in the text read; S3364 is pending.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 500000, "basis": "P.L.2024, c.22, Capital Construction (baseline fiscal year)" } ] }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2013 to 2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Office of the State Auditor audit of the Katzenbach School (issued 9 January 2013); Office of the State Comptroller performance audit of Hopatcong extraordinary aid applications (2021); the Katzenbach task force bills (2024-2025, not acted on)", "citation": "sources 44, 43 and 42", "note": "No Auditor or Comptroller report on the school, a county special services district or the extraordinary aid program inside the last ten years was found other than the 2021 Hopatcong audit (believed fact 22 partly held)." }, { "channel": "Adjacent channel: hearing aids and equipment", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2026", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Equipment Distribution Program, Hearing Aid Project and Hearing Aid Assistance for the Aged and Disabled; the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund", "citation": "Division pages (source 21)", "note": "Program amounts are not on the captured pages." } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "educational interpreter endorsement: associate or higher degree, EIPA at a minimum of 3.5 and the EIPA Written Test, twelve credits or a certificate of educational interpreting; emergency certificate at EIPA 3.5; substitute credential at EIPA 3.5 or an RID certificate", "year": "2026", "source_n": 10, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-14.18." } }, { "item": "Interpreters working in schools (FTE)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "16.75 FTE interpreters, 13.25 fully certified and 3.5 not fully certified", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 7, "note": "IDEA Section 618 personnel file; the state's own 2025 Personnel workbook (source 8) is the same instrument." } }, { "item": "Interpreter preparation programs in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "two educational interpreter programs named by the Department: Camden County College and Union County College (Union College of Union County)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 15, "note": "Program pages captured (sources 26 and 27)." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf license or endorsement", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "two endorsements, Teacher of the Deaf or Hard of Hearing with oral/aural communication (2422) and with sign language communication (2423), the latter with a sign language proficiency threshold (SLPI intermediate or ASLPI 3), and a Teacher of American Sign Language endorsement (1505)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 28, "note": "N.J.A.C. 6A:9B (source 10) and the Department's endorsement pages; the three PDFs the deaf education page links answer 404 and the current pages were found at the certification site." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf supply", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 8, "note": "The state's 618 personnel workbook reports special education teachers in total (20,922.3 FTE in 2023-24), not by endorsement; no count of certificate holders is published." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf preparation program in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "The College of New Jersey, Program for Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", "year": "2026", "source_n": 25, "note": "Program pages captured." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologists working in schools (FTE)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "15.2 FTE audiologists, 13 fully certified and 2.2 not fully certified", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 7, "note": "IDEA Section 618 personnel file. The Department publishes a list of consulting audiologists and evaluators (source 15)." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional / sign language aide standard", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 10, "note": "No sign language aide standard found in N.J.A.C. 6A:9B; the Bruce Street page describes personal and shared teacher aides." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 24, "note": "The New Jersey Center on Deafblindness provides technical assistance and training; no intervener credential is published." } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "NJ-001", "entity_name": "Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf", "entity_type": "State school for the deaf (state operated agency, Department of Education)", "operating_authority": "Department of Education (directory row 21-1431, \"a state agency that is in Mercer County\"; CCD state operated agency NJ-211431); own rule chapter N.J.A.C. 6A:21 (2024 adoption); N.J.S.18A:61-1 named in the Appropriations Acts (statute unread)", "city": "West Trenton (Ewing Township)", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Separate day school on a state campus; career and technical education in partnership with Mercer County Technical Schools; the Department's pages describe \"our Day or Residential Program\" and the Office of Special Education list says \"A residential program (Monday-Thursday) is available for high school students\", while the FY2027 budget detail note (a) reads \"As of fiscal 2026, the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf's residential program has been eliminated\" (flagged contradiction)" }, { "id": "NJ-002", "entity_name": "Office of Special Education, Deaf or Hard of Hearing program (Department of Education), with the Regional Deaf Education Centers of Excellence designation", "entity_type": "State education agency office (coordinator of deaf education; statewide program list)", "operating_authority": "Department of Education, Office of Special Education", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Not applicable (technical assistance and a published statewide list of programs, itinerant services, consulting audiologists and evaluators)" }, { "id": "NJ-003", "entity_name": "Lake Drive School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children (Lake Drive Program), Mountain Lakes Board of Education", "entity_type": "District-operated receiving school for deaf pupils (Regional Deaf Education Center of Excellence)", "operating_authority": "Mountain Lakes Board of Education (public school district 27-3460); the Public Schools file lists the Lake Drive Program for Hearing Impaired as a school of the district", "city": "Mountain Lakes", "county": "Morris", "educational_setting": "Day school in the Lake Drive School building with mainstream placements at Wildwood Elementary, Briarcliff Middle and Mountain Lakes High School; itinerant Mainstream Resource Center services in home districts; a Specialized Evaluation Team for contracted evaluations" }, { "id": "NJ-004", "entity_name": "Bruce Street School for the Deaf and the Secondary Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Technology High School, Newark Board of Education", "entity_type": "District specialized day school and secondary program", "operating_authority": "Newark Board of Education (public school district 13-3570)", "city": "Newark", "county": "Essex", "educational_setting": "Specialized day school (\"one of the oldest day programs serving children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the country\", established 1910) with integration opportunities; general education, inclusion, life skills, resource room and self-contained settings" }, { "id": "NJ-005", "entity_name": "Bergen County Special Services School District, Continuum for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (STARS, HIP, SHIP, Sound Solutions)", "entity_type": "County special services school district program (Regional Deaf Education Center of Excellence)", "operating_authority": "Bergen County Special Services School District (N.J.S.A. 18A:46-29 et seq. per N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-1.2)", "city": "Paramus (programs in Midland Park and Hackensack)", "county": "Bergen", "educational_setting": "Classes located in host district schools with inclusion in general education; itinerant teachers of the deaf, educational audiologists and speech therapists in home districts; early intervention" }, { "id": "NJ-006", "entity_name": "Gloucester County Special Services School District: Deaf/Hard of Hearing program (Schools for Neurodiversity) and the Center for Regional Education Support Services (CRESS)", "entity_type": "County special services district program and itinerant unit (Regional Center of Excellence)", "operating_authority": "Gloucester County Special Services School District", "city": "Sewell", "county": "Gloucester", "educational_setting": "Resource room and self-contained small group instruction with educational interpreting per IEP; CRESS provides itinerant consultation, direct and indirect instruction, in-service and interpreters for events (\"CRESS does not assess\")" }, { "id": "NJ-007", "entity_name": "Jersey City Public Schools, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program at PS #11 (Martin Luther King Jr. School)", "entity_type": "District program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Jersey City Board of Education", "city": "Jersey City", "county": "Hudson", "educational_setting": "Self-contained Auditory Impairment classes and inclusion at PS #11" }, { "id": "NJ-008", "entity_name": "Neptune Township School District Deaf Education Regional Program", "entity_type": "District regional program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Neptune Township Board of Education", "city": "Neptune", "county": "Monmouth", "educational_setting": "Inclusive environment with options from direct instruction by certified Teachers of the Deaf to general education, self-contained and vocational settings" }, { "id": "NJ-009", "entity_name": "Toms River Regional Schools, Silver Bay Elementary Auditory Impairment Program", "entity_type": "District program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Toms River Regional Board of Education", "city": "Toms River", "county": "Ocean", "educational_setting": "General education, inclusion, itinerant, resource room and self-contained settings" }, { "id": "NJ-010", "entity_name": "Governor Livingston High School Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program, Berkeley Heights Public Schools", "entity_type": "District program (public school district)", "operating_authority": "Berkeley Heights Board of Education", "city": "Berkeley Heights", "county": "Union", "educational_setting": "Self-contained classes with a Teacher of the Deaf and mainstreamed classes with educational interpreters" }, { "id": "NJ-011", "entity_name": "Egg Harbor Township School District, EHT Deaf Ed Program", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Egg Harbor Township Board of Education", "city": "Egg Harbor Township", "county": "Atlantic", "educational_setting": "Inclusion, resource room, general education and itinerant services (Department list)" }, { "id": "NJ-012", "entity_name": "Galloway Township Public Schools, Smithville Elementary School Auditory Impaired program (preschool through grade 6)", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Galloway Township Board of Education", "city": "Galloway", "county": "Atlantic", "educational_setting": "In-class resource setting with Teachers of the Deaf (push-in or pull-out), educational interpreters, an immersive ASL instructor in preschool, staff ASL professional development and ASL clubs; building equipped with visual and strobe alerting" }, { "id": "NJ-013", "entity_name": "Mount Laurel Township Schools, DHH Program at Springville Elementary School", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Mount Laurel Township Board of Education", "city": "Mount Laurel", "county": "Burlington", "educational_setting": "Mainstreamed grade-level classrooms with in-class support or pull-out; a full-time Teacher of the Deaf on staff and a speech-language therapist who is a certified interpreter" }, { "id": "NJ-014", "entity_name": "Upper Township School District deaf and hard of hearing services", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Upper Township Board of Education", "city": "Petersburg", "county": "Cape May", "educational_setting": "\"Our program involves providing services to students as needed to meet their individual learning needs\" (Department list): general education, inclusion, itinerant, resource room and self-contained" }, { "id": "NJ-015", "entity_name": "Vineland Public Schools deaf and hard of hearing program", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Vineland Board of Education", "city": "Vineland", "county": "Cumberland", "educational_setting": "General education, inclusion and self-contained small group instruction (Department list)" }, { "id": "NJ-016", "entity_name": "Mount Olive Township School District Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program", "entity_type": "District program (Department-listed; own site lists the services)", "operating_authority": "Mount Olive Township Board of Education", "city": "Flanders", "county": "Morris", "educational_setting": "Teacher of the deaf support, inclusion, self-contained, general education and itinerant settings; ICS, ICR, LLD, MD, ASD, young adult and integrated preschool programs (Department list)" }, { "id": "NJ-017", "entity_name": "Passaic County Technical-Vocational School District, CTE Instruction/Deaf Program", "entity_type": "County vocational school district program (Department-listed; own site silent)", "operating_authority": "Passaic County Technical-Vocational Board of Education (N.J.S.A. 18A:54-1 et seq. per N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-1.2)", "city": "Wayne", "county": "Passaic", "educational_setting": "Career and technical education with sign language interpreters accompanying pupils to classes outside the Deaf program; \"Instruction in the Deaf program is provided through sign language\"" }, { "id": "NJ-018", "entity_name": "Educational Services Commission of New Jersey, Itinerant Services for Students with Hearing Loss (Teachers of the Deaf)", "entity_type": "Educational services commission itinerant unit", "operating_authority": "Educational Services Commission of New Jersey (N.J.S.A. 18A:6-52 per N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-1.2)", "city": "Piscataway", "county": "Middlesex", "educational_setting": "Itinerant teachers of the deaf collaborating with district teams \"to provide DHH students with appropriate educational services and support equitable access to learning within the public school program\"" }, { "id": "NJ-019", "entity_name": "Educational Services Unit of Burlington County (Burlington County Special Services School District), Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services", "entity_type": "County special services school district itinerant and evaluation unit", "operating_authority": "Burlington County Special Services School District", "city": "Westampton", "county": "Burlington", "educational_setting": "Teacher of the Deaf service models (hourly itinerant and others), classroom observations, a Deaf and Hard of Hearing Comprehensive Child Study Team, NJDOE certificated educational interpreters, ASL 101 and 102 hybrid high school courses" }, { "id": "NJ-020", "entity_name": "Summit Speech School", "entity_type": "Approved private school for students with disabilities (listening and spoken language; OPTION)", "operating_authority": "Nonprofit; on the Department's approved private school list (408307001); OPTION Schools member", "city": "New Providence", "county": "Union", "educational_setting": "Full-day preschool in New Providence; home-based early intervention with weekly group family training and the Sound Beginnings toddler group; itinerant mainstream support; audiology program" }, { "id": "NJ-021", "entity_name": "The Center for Education (Lakewood) and First Children (Plainfield): approved private schools with deaf and hard of hearing programs", "entity_type": "Approved private schools for students with disabilities (Department-listed)", "operating_authority": "Private; on the Department's approved private school list (The Center for Education 308399001; First Children School 408225001)", "city": "Lakewood; Plainfield", "county": "Ocean; Union", "educational_setting": "Inclusion and self-contained small group instruction (Department list)" }, { "id": "NJ-022", "entity_name": "Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Department of Human Services", "entity_type": "State division (advocacy, communication access, equipment)", "operating_authority": "Department of Human Services; N.J.S.A. 34:1-69.1 et seq. (read): created 1941 in Labor and Industry, 18-member Advisory Council (34:1-69.1a), statistics duty (34:1-69.3), annual report to the Legislature (34:1-69.3a); seated in Human Services by reorganization", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Not applicable: deaf and hard of hearing specialists (advocacy), the Equipment Distribution Program, communication access and captioning directories, sensitivity training, hearing aid programs, an advisory council" }, { "id": "NJ-023", "entity_name": "Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program, Department of Health", "entity_type": "State public health program (newborn hearing screening)", "operating_authority": "Department of Health, Family Health Services", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "NJ-024", "entity_name": "New Jersey Early Intervention System (IDEA Part C), Department of Health", "entity_type": "State early intervention system (Part C lead agency)", "operating_authority": "Department of Health", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "NJ-025", "entity_name": "New Jersey Center on Deafblindness (The College of New Jersey, Center on Sensory and Complex Disabilities)", "entity_type": "Federal state deafblind project (university-hosted)", "operating_authority": "The College of New Jersey, School of Education, under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs", "city": "Ewing", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Technical assistance, training and information; a state registry of children who are deafblind reported annually to the National Center on Deafblindness" }, { "id": "NJ-026", "entity_name": "Teacher and interpreter preparation: The College of New Jersey (Program for Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing), Camden County College and Union College of Union County (educational interpreter programs)", "entity_type": "Postsecondary preparation programs", "operating_authority": "The College of New Jersey; Camden County College; Union College of Union County", "city": "Ewing; Blackwood; Cranford", "county": "Mercer; Camden; Union", "educational_setting": "TCNJ prepares teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing and offers deaf studies; the two county colleges offer the educational interpreter programs the Department's page names, with ASL and Deaf Studies tracks" }, { "id": "NJ-027", "entity_name": "Working Group on Deaf Education (2019 legislation) and the Deaf Student's Bill of Rights", "entity_type": "Statutory working group (reported 2019) and a directive statute limited to federal rights", "operating_authority": "P.L.2019, c.204 (N.J.S.A. 18A:46-2.7 to 2.9, the Bill of Rights, directive, limited by 2.9 to federal rights) and c.205 (18A:46-2.10 to 2.14, the Working Group and the annual public data report), read (source 52)", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "NJ-028", "entity_name": "State agency education units: Department of Children and Families Office of Education, Department of Corrections Office of Educational Services, Juvenile Justice Commission Office of Education", "entity_type": "State agency education units (CCD state operated agencies; rows in the state count)", "operating_authority": "Department of Children and Families; Department of Corrections; Juvenile Justice Commission (Office of the Attorney General)", "city": "Trenton", "county": "Mercer", "educational_setting": "Agency-operated schools and programs" } ], "disclosure": { "relationships": [ { "body": "sCOMM (Brian Friedlander), a private-sector company", "relationship": "other", "since": "2026-09-07" } ], "statement": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any New Jersey body named in this file. 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