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Board approves residency finding, orders disenrollment and tuition assessment for two students
Summary
The Mount Olive Board approved a residency committee recommendation that two students are not domiciled in the district for the 2024-25 school year, ordered disenrollment, and assessed tuition totaling $3,466.97 per student; parents were notified of appeal rights to the commissioner of education.
The Mount Olive Township School District Board of Education on March 25 added and approved a resolution finding two students not domiciled in the district during the 2024–25 school year, ordering their disenrollment and assessing tuition, the board announced in a routine administrative action.
The added item, labeled in the agenda as a residency hearing resolution for student numbers 213500 and 213502, reported that a residency committee held a hearing on March 19, 2025. The resolution says the committee considered proofs and testimony presented by the parents and findings from a residency investigation conducted by the board’s director of security, and concluded the students were not domiciled in Mount Olive for 2024–25.
The board’s resolution ordered the students disenrolled and assessed tuition for the students in the amount of $3,466.97 (per student as stated in the resolution). The resolution also directed that written notice of the decision and of the family’s rights to contest the decision before the Commissioner of Education be served upon the parents “as required by law.”
The residency resolution was added to the agenda after the superintendent’s report and prior to the board’s approval of administrative items. Board members moved to add item 10.12, then voted as part of approving administrative items 10.1–10.12 by roll call; the recorded roll call in the meeting transcript shows unanimous recorded votes of the members present on that set of administrative items.
The resolution text on the record described the recommendation as made by the board’s residency committee and based on an investigation by the director of security and the parents’ admissions. The motion and final vote were taken during the administrative action portion of the agenda; the transcript does not record any public comments on this specific residency decision during the meeting.
The resolution specifies that parents have the right to contest the board’s decision before the Commissioner of Education; the transcript copies the resolution language that such notice will be served “as required by law.” The board did not cite a specific statute or local policy in the meeting transcript when reading the resolution.
