From the ECS State Policy Database Finance--Funding Formulas

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary TX Adopted 10/2012 P-12 From Texas Register: Adds provisions to reflect the agency's current practice for determining full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts for special education, bilingual education, and career and technical education allotments for school districts and charter schools in which the total enrollment contains 5.0% or more students who have certificates of eligibility in the state's migrant student tracking database. For each such district or charter school, directs the commissioner of education to calculate annual FTE as used in the calculation of the special education, bilingual education, and career and technical education allotments by using the best four of the six-week periods for each of the three FTE counts. Provides that in no case may the annual FTE count exceed the sum of the number of students who have certificates of eligibility plus the FTEs calculated by using all six six-week periods. Adopted as published in the July 27, 2012 Texas Register (pages 12-13 of 47): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0727/0727prop.pdf Title: 19 TAC 129.1021 Source: www.sos.state.tx.us CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Requires a district, as a condition of the receipt of at-risk pupil funding (i.e., economic impact aid funds, allocated based on the number of economically disadvantaged pupils and English learners in the district), to post in an easily accessible location on its website data related to its economic impact aid funding and expenditures. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_754_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 754 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Under the California Constitution, whenever the legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including a school district and a community college district, the state is required to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, with specified exceptions. Existing law, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, requires that certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement of the cost of a new program or increased level of service of an existing program mandated by statute or executive order be available as a block grant to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to support specified state-mandated local programs and permits those entities to elect to receive that block grant funding in lieu of claiming mandated costs pursuant to the state claims process. This bill adds specified state-mandated local programs to the set of programs for which a school district, charter school, or county office of education may elect to receive a block grant, including, among others, an interdistrict attendance permits program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1028_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 1028 - Programs Eligible for Block Grant Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Commencing with the 2014–15 school year, authorizes, for purposes of computing average daily attendance, the inclusion of pupils in grades 9-12, under the immediate supervision and control of a certificated employee of the school district or county office of education who is delivering synchronous, online instruction, provided that this instruction meets specified criteria. Requires, if a district or county office of education elects to offer synchronous, online instruction, that the district or county office of education provide all pupils who choose to enroll in an online course access to the computer hardware or software necessary for the pupil to participate in the course. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish rules and regulations for purposes of implementing these provisions and requires those rules and regulations to, at a minimum, address specified matters. Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to provide guidance regarding a district or county office of education's ability to provide synchronous, online instruction. Makes all of these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2019, and repeals them on January 1, 2020. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_644_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 644 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Establishes a 21-member California Task Force on School Finance as of January 1, 2013, to review and analyze alternative funding formulas, in order to identify and recommend a formula or formulas that best meet the needs of the state's public school system and pupils. Specifies criteria to be used by the task force to evaluate funding formulas. Provides that 10 of the members of the task force would be appointed by the Governor, 5 appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, 5 appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and that the superintendent of public instruction or his/her designee would be a member of, and serve as chair of, the task force. Specifies the qualifications of the appointees, and provides for reimbursement for their expenses in attending meetings. Requires that task force meetings be subject to specified open meeting requirements. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by April 1, 2013. Provides these provisions become operative only if the superintendent of public instruction certifies, on or before January 31, 2013, that sufficient nonstate funds are available for its implementation. Make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2013, and repeals them as of January 1, 2014. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_18_bill_20120831_enrolled.pdf Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_18_Veto_Message.pdf Title: A.B. 18 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Waives from calculation of full-time equivalency/minimum school calendar requirements for traditional public schools and community schools any hours or days that learning opportunities were not offered due to law enforcement emergencies. Pages 159 and 173 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf Title: S.B. 316 - Schools Not Open Due to Law Enforcement Emergencies Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us HI Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Requests that the University of Hawaii, with the assistance of the department of education and other educational organizations as appropriate, review the state's funding for existing English as a Second Language and Hawaiian language programs offered in Hawaii and any disparities in funding for the state's two official languages. Requests that the University of Hawaii report its findings and recommendations, including projected costs to address any disparities in funding, to the legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the 2013 regular session. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/SR43_SD1_.pdf Title: S.R. 43 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov LA Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Provides for legislative approval of the formula for the 2012-13 school year to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program (MFP) of education in all public elementary and secondary schools as well as to equitably allocate the funds to local school systems as developed by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and adopted by the board on February 27, 2012. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810185 Title: S.C.R. 99 Source: www.legis.state.la.us VT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Creates a working group to review and evaluate how the state's current system allocates financial and other resources in a way that promotes high quality, equitable educational opportunities for students throughout the state and how impediments to opportunity, such as poverty and substance abuse, may be mitigated. Establishes membership of working group and asks for a report on findings and recommendations by December 15, 2012. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Acts/ACT156.pdf Title: S.B. 113 - Section on State Funding Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us AZ Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Limits the window during which the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) can conduct Average Daily Membership (ADM) audits to three years from the time the monitoring or audit activity begins; Allows ADE to adjust funding for a school district or charter school that was overpaid or underpaid during the audit window if ADE issues those findings within two years of the beginning of monitoring or audit activity; Requires the correction of errors in the calculation of state aid or budget limits for a school district or charter school that are discovered within the previous three years, rather than the previous year. Revises the method for calculating ADM from one that relies on counting the total enrollment of students on four dates each year to one that counts the total enrollment of each school day through the first 100 or 200 days in session, as applicable. Specifies that high school students are classified as either full-time or fractional students based on the number of classes they take, each of which, if taught each school day for the minimum number of days required in a school year, would meet for a minimum of 123 hours per year, or the equivalent. Adjusts the transportation support level to provide additional support to school districts that elect to offer 200 days of instruction, rather than 180. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0357.pdf Title: S.B. 1456 Source: azleg.gov CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 (Sec. 34) Defines an alliance district as a town whose school district is among those with the lowest academic performance as measured by a district performance index (DPI) the bill establishes. For FY 13, the bill requires the education commissioner to designate 30 alliance districts. Districts keep the designation for five years. The commissioner must determine, by June 30, 2016, whether to designate additional alliance districts. Also establishes a subcategory of alliance districts called "educational reform districts," which are the 10 districts with the lowest DPIs. Defines how DPI is calculated. Requires the state comptroller to hold back any Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant increase over the prior year's grant that is payable to an alliance district town in FY 13 or any subsequent fiscal year. The comptroller must transfer the money to the education commissioner. An alliance district may apply to receive its ECS grant increase when and how the education commissioner prescribes. The bill allows the commissioner to pay the funds to the district on condition that they are spent according to its approved district improvement plan (see below) and guidelines the bill allows SBE to adopt. Requires any balance of the conditional ECS funds allocated to each alliance district that remains unspent at the end of any fiscal year to be carried over and remain available to the district for the following fiscal year. Alliance districts must use their conditional ECS funding to improve local achievement and offset other local education costs the commissioner approves. To be eligible to receive the funds, a district must submit an application to the commissioner that must contain objectives and performance targets as well as an improvement plan with specified inclusions.allows the commissioner to withhold conditional funding if an alliance district fails to comply with the bill's requirements and renew the funding if a district's school board provides evidence that the district is meeting the objectives and performance targets of its plan. Districts receiving conditional funding must submit annual expenditure reports in a form and manner the commissioner prescribes. The commissioner must determine whether to require a district to repay amounts not spent in accordance with its approved application or reduce the district's grant by that amount in a subsequent year. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/PA/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm Title: S.B. 458 Source: cga.ct.gov WA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Establishes the joint task force on education funding to: (1) Develop a proposal for a reliable and dependable funding mechanism to support basic education programs; and (2) Consider the specific recommendations, from the quality education council, for the transitional bilingual instructional program. Makes certain dedicated revenues available for implementation of basic education reform and to facilitate the funding reform recommendations of the task force. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202012/2824.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 2824 Source: apps.leg.wa.gov ME Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Part A amends and clarifies audit requirements in order for the State and school administrative units to be in compliance with federal regulations and also enacts statutory language requiring the audit of state-funded school construction projects Part B requires that the regional school unit budget meeting occur within 30 days after the failure of the budget validation referendum. Part C repeals the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 109, which establishes the union school governance structure, and fixes cross-references to that chapter. There are no longer any school administrative units using this governance structure. It also repeals statutory language that applies to school construction projects approved prior to July 1, 1985 and clarifies statutory language that applies to current school construction projects. Part D revises school construction language to be in compliance with the current funding requirements. Part F repeals the addition of targeted funds to the elementary tuition rate for students who are residents of the unorganized territory to be consistent with the repeal of the addition of targeted funds to the secondary tuition rate by Public Law 2009, chapter 213. Part G refines state requirements for summer school tuition rates for the first year of operation. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1284&item=1&snum=125 Title: H.P. 1284-Finance Source: www.mainelegislature.org NY Issued 04/2012 P-12 Establishes the New NY Education Reform Commission to provide guidance and advice to the governor on education policy, performance, and innovation. Directs the commission to study the best national and international public education models and best practices to recommend ways to increase educational productivity and student performance in the state. Directs the commission to comprehensively review and assess the state's education system to ultimately create significant savings while improving student achievement and providing students with a high-quality education. Requires that the review include, but not be limited to: a. studying teacher recruitment and performance, including incentives to keep the best teachers, and the teacher preparation, certification and evaluation systems; b. analyzing factors that support P-12 student achievement to ensure all students are on track to graduate from high school ready for college, careers, and active citizenship; c. evaluating education funding, distribution of state aid, and operating costs to identify efficiencies in spending while maintaining the quality of educational programs, including special education; d. increasing parent and family engagement, including examining the school calendar and district-level policies that increase parental involvement; e. examining the unique issues faced by high-need urban and rural districts, including comparing best practices and identifying the different services that these districts might require to be successful; f. analyzing the availability of technology and its best use in the classroom, including the accessibility of, and obstacles to, using technology in the classroom in light of the requirements and demands of the job market to best prepare our students; and g. examining the overall structure of the state's education system to determine whether it meets students' needs while respecting the taxpayer. Directs the commission to compare student achievement outcomes with education spending, focusing on districts that generate higher than average achievement per dollars spent, including high-need districts that are providing students with the opportunity to receive a sound basic education, and identifying how districts can boost student achievement without increasing spending. Directs the commission to submit preliminary recommendations by December 2012, and final recommendations by September 2013, at which time the commission will terminate its work. http://www.governor.ny.gov/executiveorder/44 Title: E.O. No. 44 Source: www.governor.ny.gov FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 From bill analysis: Reduces the 5% charter school administrative fee charged by school districts for schools that have an exceptional student enrollment that is 75% or greater of the total school enrollment. Bases the fee for affected schools on unweighted FTE rather than weighted FTE. Bill text (page 10 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Final bill analysis (pages 3-5 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 5101 - Charter School Administrative Fee Source: myfloridahouse.gov FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 From bill analysis: Delays the increased class size penalty (from 50% to the full amount of the base student allocation) until 2014-2015, including a retroactive adjustment of the 2011-2012 penalty calculation. Bill text (pages 17-18 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Final bill analysis (pages 5-7 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 5101 - Delay of Class Size Penalty Source: myfloridahouse.gov FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Calcifies the amount of state and local funding to which juvenile justice education programs are entitled. Pages 18-20 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 5101 - Funding for Juvenile Justice Education Programs Source: myfloridahouse.gov GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Includes school nurses in state funding formula based on full-time equivalent student counts. Requires one nurse for every 750 full-time equivalent students at the elementary level and one nurse for every 1,500 studetns at the secondary level. Sets additional funding parameters, including that local school systems that do not meet the minimum full-time equivalent counts are to receive a base amount of funding. Directs the state board, subject to appropriations, to provide grants to local school systems to purchase supplies for school health nurse programs. Provides for distribution of grant funds to local school systems. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127810.pdf Title: S.B. 403 Source: www.legis.ga.gov KY Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 For the 2011-12 school year, directs the commissioner of education to waive up to 10 instructional days for a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared. Permits a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared, when submitting the Superintendent's Annual Attendance Report, may substitute attendance data for school year 2010-2011 for attendance data for school year 2011-2012. Directs instructional staff in a county in which a disaster has been declared to make up any student instructional days waived by participating in instructional activities or professional development or by being assigned additional work responsibilities. Provides this Act applies retroactively to the disaster occurring on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, to Saturday, March 3, 2012. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB255/bill.doc Title: H.B. 255 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov ID Became law without governor's signature 03/2012 P-12 Provides for 97% average daily attendance (ADA) funding protection for Idaho school districts. This is important because school districts must make teacher contract offers by no later than July 1st, before they know how many students will show up for school at the end of summer. The bill would allow school districts that lose more than 3% of their students, year over year, to continue receiving state funding as if the district only lost 3% of its students. The ADA-driven loss of funding would "catch up" the following school year, since this protection feature would reset to 97% of the lower ADA count. However, the school district would know this in advance, and could reduce staffing between school years accordingly. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/H0603.pdf Title: H.B. 603 Source: legislature.idaho.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Repeals 53A-17a-123, which required the state board to distribute money appropriated for the Local Discretionary Block Grant Program to school districts and charter schools according to a board-adopted formula. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0156.pdf Title: H.B. 156 - Local Discretionary Block Grant Program Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Repeals 53A-17a-131.9, which governed use of monies appropriated to or received by the State Board of Education to maintain Title 63M, Chapter 9, Families, Agencies, and Communities Together for Children and Youth At Risk Act. Repeals 53A-17a-131.16, provisions regarding state contribution for school district hold harmless program. Repeals 53A-17a-137, which provided higher compensation adjustments to classified employee groups in comparison to other district employee groups when dividing the weighted pupil unit for compensation adjustment purposes. Repeals 53A-17a-138, regarding increases in the value of the weighted pupil unit. Repeals 53A-17a-148, regarding use of nonlapsing balances. Repeals a provision of 53A-2-206, which prohibited foreign exchange students from being included in enrollment when calculating student growth for the purpose of adjusting the annual appropriation for retirement and Social Security. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0156.pdf Title: H.B. 156 - Repealing Certain School Funding Provisions Source: le.utah.gov CO Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Changes the language of the annual pupil count day from October 1 to Pupil Enrollment Count Day to provide flexibility in case Oct. 1 falls on a weekend, holiday or other situation. The education department can establish alternative dates for year-round schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/8BDB374F4B137C9587257981007F192D?Open&file=1090_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1090 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us IN Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Requires an accredited nonpublic school to provide sufficient verbal information to permit a requesting school to which a child transfers to make an appropriate placement decision when the parent of the child is in breach of a contract that conditions release of student records on the payment of outstanding tuition and other fees. Requires the state board of education to conduct a second count of students enrolled in school corporations and charter schools in February of each school year, with the first count being in September. Expires the school funding formula on July 1, 2013. Transfers the appropriation and funding for charter school start-up grants to the appropriation for state tuition support. Increases the amount of the charter school start-up grant for charter schools that begin operation in calendar year 2012 and provides that the grant is to be paid in six installments with one installment in each of the last six months of calendar year 2012. Specifies that the amount distributed as special grants to school corporations to reflect the savings resulting from the education of students under a choice scholarship rather than in a school corporation are limited only by the state fiscal year appropriation and not the calendar year cap that limits the amount of state tuition support payable in a calendar year. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/HE/HE1189.1.html Title: H.B. 1189 Source: www.in.gov NJ Issued 02/2012 P-12 Creates the New Jersey Education Funding Task Force to examine the state's school funding formula and identify areas that may be susceptible to fraud or subject to outside manipulation. Additionally, the Task Force is directed to consider: (a) economically effective measures of student poverty; (b) educationally sound measures of defining at-risk students; (c) appropriate adjustments to the SFRA to account for municipal property ratable bases that may be artificially deflated as a result of municipal property tax abatements. The Task Force shall consist of seven individuals from both inside and outside government who have knowledge or expertise in the areas of education funding, policy, administration, governance, and fiscal management. The Task Force shall issue a final report to the Governor setting no later than 120 days after organizing. The report shall be provided to the Legislature and shall be made available to the public.The Task Force shall expire upon the issuance of its final report. http://nj.gov/infobank/circular/eocc89.pdf Title: E.O. 89 Source: http://www.state.nj.us/governor/ CA Signed into law 02/2012 P-12 Requires the state to readjust how budget cuts impact district funding. District funding would be reduced by a rate of 9.57% instead of 8.92%. The money saved by this budget move would be used to help restore $248 million to school district transportation funding. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_81_bill_20120210_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 81 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Existing law sets the minimum schoolday in a high school, except certain schools, including a regional occupational center, and except for pupils enrolled in a work experience education program, at 240 minutes. Existing law, until July 1, 2012, requires the superintendent of public instruction to compute an amount of funding for each pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement that became effective prior to January 1, 2008, for the period of time the pupil attends classes pursuant to the joint powers agreement, by performing specified calculations. Existing law requires, for these pupils, that a 180-minute schoolday be computed and reported as attendance for 3.4 of the full 240-minute schoolday for purposes of those calculations. Existing law requires that the number of hours of instruction at regional occupational centers or programs that are claimed for funding pursuant to these provisions be used, in addition to specified hourly rates, in the computation of the average daily attendance of the regional occupational center or program. Existing law, until July 1, 2012, makes the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement between the Clovis Unified School District and the Fresno Unified School District, ineligible to receive charter school funding. This bill would extend to July 1, 2017, the provisions regarding the ineligibility of the Center for Advanced Research and Technology for charter school funding and the computation of attendance for pupils concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement that became effective prior to January 1, 2008. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0351-0400/sb_361_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 361 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent that statutes creating a reimbursable state mandate on local educational agencies be periodically reviewed, and that the legislature consider recommendations on whether those statutes should be amended, repealed, or remain unchanged. Requires that, in addition to a report submitted pursuant to existing law, the Legislative Analyst review and report on each reimbursable state mandate relating to local educational agencies that meets prescribed criteria. Specifies the information to be provided in the review and report, and requires that the review and report be provided to the chairpersons of the Assembly and Senate Committees on Education, and the fiscal committees of the Assembly and the Senate, on or before the January 1 following the adjournment of the regular session of the legislature for which the review was made. Defines a local educational agency for the purposes of those provisions. Authorizes a successful test claimant that is a local educational agency to designate another local educational agency to prepare and submit the proposed reimbursement parameters and guidelines to the commission, as specified. Modifies provisions governing the development of a draft reasonable reimbursement methodology and provides for binding arbitration in the case of an impasse. Enacts other related provisions. Requires the Controller to notify the appropriate fiscal and education policy committees of the legislature within 30 days of the date upon which the Controller determines that the total claims for reimbursement filed in a fiscal year, on any mandate where the test claim was filed by a local educational agency, exceed the adopted statewide estimate of costs for that mandate by more than 25%. Also requires the Commission on State Mandates to notify the above-referenced committees within 30 days of the date upon which a test claim is filed by a local educational agency, where that agency submits a written narrative that identifies certain information regarding a regulation alleged to contain a mandate. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_202_bill_20110909_enrolled.pdf Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_202_Veto_Message.pdf Title: A.B. 202 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Amends the instructional time during which the remote educational program may be delivered (to disassociate from the traditional school calendar). Replaces reference to "days of attendance" to "clock hours of instruction" for purposes of the remote educational program. Provides that students enrolled in a remote educational program may be counted on the basis of one-fifth day of attendance for every clock hour of instruction, provided that, in any month, the school district may not claim more days of attendance than the maximum number of days of attendance the district can claim for students in a traditional or year-round schedule, depending on which school calendar the remote educational program student is enrolled in. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0339.pdf Title: H.B. 3223 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Requires a school district that receives an Early Childhood Block Grant to report to the state board of education on its use of the block grant in such form and detail as specified by the state board. Requires the report to the general assembly to include the following information for the district: block grant allocation and expenditures by program; population and service levels by program; and administrative expenditures by program. Also requires the report on how Chicago uses education block grant and educational services block grants to include block grant allocation and expenditures by program; population and service levels by program; and administrative expenditures by program. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0256.pdf Title: S.B. 1742 Source: www.ilga.gov MN Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Establishes literacy incentive aid as the sum of proficiency aid and growth aid. Establishes the formula for a school's proficiency aid equal to the district's enrollment times $85 times its proficiency index. Sets the proficiency index equal to the percent of third graders meeting or exceeding proficiency on the third grade reading MCA. Establishes the formula for a school's growth aid equal to the district's enrollment times $85 times the percentage of fourth graders making medium or high growth on the reading MCA. (Article 13, Sec 43) http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf Title: H.F. 26 Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/ TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Requires the establishment of a joint legislative interim committee to conduct a comprehensive study of the public school finance system. Directs the committee to make recommendations to the legislature no later than January 15, 2013, regarding changes to the public school finance system. Dissolves the committee September 1, 2013. Page 166 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 1 - School Finance System Study Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us NH Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 1. Repeals the calculation and distribution of fiscal capacity disparity aid; 2. Sets the amount of differentiated aid at $1,725 for each pupil eligible for the free or reduced-price meal program; 3. Provides a grant in the amount of $2,000 for chartered public school pupils; 4. Provides $675 for each third grade pupil who has not tested at the proficient level or above in the reading component of the state assessment and who is not eligible to receive special education, English as a second language, or free or reduced-price meal program funds; 5. Beginning July 1, 2013, provides that a municipality's total education grant shall not exceed 105.5 percent of the total education grant received in the previous fiscal year; 6. Provides a stabilization grant to certain municipalities in fiscal year 2012 equal to the decrease from the municipality's fiscal year 2011 total education grant, and provides that a municipality shall continue to receive this stabilization grant in fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal year thereafter. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/HB0337.html Title: H.B. 337 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ LA Adopted 06/2011 P-12 Provides for legislative approval of the formula to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program of education in all public elementary and secondary schools as well as to equitably allocate the funds to city, parish, and other local public school systems as developed by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and adopted by the board on February 17, 2011. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=757645 Title: H.C.R. 130 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 From bill analysis: Establishes the eligibility of the adjutant general's department to receive Foundation School Program funding for students enrolled in the Texas ChalleNGe Academy. Directs the department to contract with an appropriate school district for the provision of educational services for students enrolled in the academy. Requires that the school district with which the department contracts be responsible for ensuring compliance with any applicable regulatory requirements imposed under the Education Code and enforced by the commissioner of education and the Texas Education Agency. Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02247F.pdf#navpanes=0 Bill analysis: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/analysis/pdf/HB02247E.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: H.B. 2247 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us NC Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 P-12 Directs the state board to allocate an additional $1,192.90 per academically or intellectually gifted child for fiscal year 2011-2012 and $1,192.90 per child for fiscal year 2012-2013. Requires that a local school administrative unit receive funds for a maximum of 4% of its 2011-2012 allocated average daily membership, regardless of the number of children identified as academically or intellectually gifted in the unit. Requires that dollar amounts allocated under these provisions also adjust in accordance with legislative salary increments, retirement rate adjustments, and health benefit adjustments for personnel who serve academically or intellectually gifted children. Page 42 of 342: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf Title: H.B. 200 - Funds for Gifted Children Source: www.ncleg.net HI Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Amends Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Committee on Weights (to develop a weighted student formula) to meet not less than once every odd-numbered year, rather than annually. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB1281_HD1_.HTM Title: S.B. 1281 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov WA Partial Veto 06/2011 P-12 Modifies education funding provisions related to: (1) increased instructional hours in basic education; (2) funding formulas for per-student allocations based on certain students' needs; (3) the pupil transportation funding formula; (4) support services for career and technical student organizations; (5) expediting the expiration of the special services pilot program; and (6) repealing a 2010 intent section that established a statutory schedule for increased funding for specified basic education programs. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/5919-S.SL.pdf Title: S.B. 5919 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov KS Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Would change the starting date of the special education school finance formula that determines the minimum and maximum amount of special education state aid a school may receive. This provision would go into effect for the 2012-2013 and the 2013-2014 school years and end on June 30, 2014. The bill allows school districts to expend a portion of the unencumbered balances held in particular funds. The following funds would be considered the first priority for use: at-risk education; bilingual education; contingency reserve; driver training; parent education; preschool-aged at-risk; professional development; summer program; virtual school; and vocational education. The textbook and student materials revolving fund would be the second priority with the special education fund the last priority for use. Local school boards are not limited to using the funds in the priority list and are not required to expend the total unencumbered balance before utilizing the unencumbered balance in another fund. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/sb111_enrolled.pdf. Title: S.B. 111 Source: http://www.ksleg. NE Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Changes the formula which provides state aid to schools pursuant to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act (TEEOSA). See details in fiscal note: http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/FN/LB235.pdf Title: L.B. 235 Source: http://nebraskalegislature.gov GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Establishes the State Education Finance Study Commission to evaluate the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Formula and education funding for public schools in Georgia. Provides for composition, compensation, duties and powers, and support staff of the commission. Directs the commission to review specified issues related to the QBE formula, state and local funding partnership, equalization, student transportation, state schools funding, capital outlay. Encourages the commission to study and evaluate issues related to charter schools; Career, Technical, and Agriculture Education, dual enrollment, virtual schools; teacher pay; non-QBE grants, and other changes to the education code. Provides a timeline for the commission's work, including that the proposed legislation for final recommendations be completed by end of 2012. Abolishes commission and supporting statutory language on March 31, 2013. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf Title: H.B. 192 - State Education Finance Study Commission Source: www.legis.ga.gov TX Adopted 05/2011 P-12 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) proposes the repeal of and new s.62.1071, concerning the equalized wealth level. The section establishes provisions relating to the administration of wealth equalization. The proposed repeal would remove outdated provisions from rule. The proposed new section would replace those outdated provisions with a manual on wealth equalization requirements that would be updated and adopted as a part of the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) each year. TEXAS REG 250992 Title: 19 TAC 62.1071 Source: Westlaw/StateNet MT Passed 05/2011 P-12 A Joint resolution requesting an interim study of performance-based funding for K-12 education, the development of a performance-based funding design, and an implementation plan for consideration by the 63rd legislature. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/SJ0028.pdf Title: S.J.R. 28 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 The measure requires that state aid to districts for students in online courses be based upon the average daily membership of those students in the first nine weeks of the current school year. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB141%20ENR.DOC Title: S.B. 141 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us ME Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Exempts certain reformulated school administrative districts that did not operate a K-12 program from the requirement to maintain such a program. Clarifies that the vote regarding the closure of an elementary or secondary school in a regional school unit is required only when the school is closed for lack of need. Repeals the annual audit requirement for the purpose of approving private schools for tuition purposes. Clarifies that elementary school and secondary school closures for regional school units that have more than one secondary school must be in accordance with the procedures in state law (Me. Rev. State. Ann. tit. 20A, § 1512). Amends the language on annual student counts for school administrative units and publicly funded students in private schools or programs for reporting dates to the Department of Education according to time schedules that the Commissioner of Education established. Amends the laws governing student counts to require that student counts are based on the number of students in attendance on October 1st and April 1st. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC171.asp Title: H.P. 959 Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Revises the funding formula: weighting factors related to English Language Learners, special education and isolated schools. Adds a middle school factor with a sunset clause. Makes baseline funding adjustments. Modifies the calculation of the statewide average inputed taxable per pupil amount. Excludes Ed Jobs Funds from the caluclation of unobligated fund balance. Increases the amount of money and interest rate discount that can be borrowed for school construction loans. Addresses rapid enrollment by appropriating $5 million from the oil and gas impact grant fund to any district with a 7% and at least 25 student increase over the previous fall enrollment count. Continues the requirement to use 70% of new funding for increasing teacher compensation or hiring additional staff. Creates a special interim legislative committee to study education and taxation issues. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0208-12000.pdf Title: S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Suspends the July 1, 2011 implementation of Laws 2010, Chapter 318, Section 11 which modified the method of calculating average daily membership (ADM) if the Arizona Department of Education is unable to implement until July 1, 2012. Under the new method, ADM is redefined as the average of the total enrollment of fractional and full-time students who are enrolled on four specific days: September 15th, November 15th, January 15th and March 15th. Chapter 306 http://www.azleg.gov/legtest/50leg/1r/bills/sb1256s.pdf Title: S.B. 1256--ADM Calculation Source: http://www.azleg.gov AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Removes the statutory restrictions on the use of Soft Capitol Allocation (SCA) monies. Allows, as session law, 50% of unemnumbered ECA credits to be spent for short term capital items such as technology, textbooks, library resources, instructional aids, pupil transportation vehicles, furniture and equipment in FY 2012 and 2013 only. Schools may only use unencumbered ECA credits received before tax year 2011 for these purposes. Schop;s must also report these expenditrues to Joint Legislative Budget Committee at the end of each fiscal year. Specifies that if a public school has unspent ECA contributions that were previously designated for a specific purpose or program and that purpose or program has been discontinued or has not been used for two consecutive fiscal years, those contributions are considered undesignated monies in the following fiscal year. Requires a public school that received fees or a cash contribution to additionally report their dollar amount of fees, categorized by specific extra curricular activity or character education program. Title: H.B. 2301 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 This legislation makes amendments to SB 1184 – the third bill in the Students Come First plan. These changes are as follows: Additional relief is granted from the state's "use it or lose it" requirement for state instructional staff funding. The relief is expanded from the 6%, 8% and 10% granted by SB 1184 for FY12, FY13 and FY14+ to 7%, 9.5% and 11%. This adjustment allows the amount of relief to better reflect the actual budget that was set for Public Schools after the introduction of SB 1184. Revises provisions relating to fractional average daily attendance for students attending more than one school district or public charter school, or who are enrolled in online courses. Revises provisions relating to staff allowances and funded positions and revises provisions relating to the education portion of the experience and education multiplier table. Revises provisions relating to: certain staff salaries; Idaho digital learning academy funding, and; distribution of state funds for certain math and science courses. Establishes provisions for dual credits for early completers, making them eligible for up to 36 post-secondary credits of dual credit courses in twelfth grade. Revises provisions permitting post secondary institutions to operate public charter schools. Declares an emergency for all sections of this act and SB 1184, and language is added to provide greater time specificity for certain provisions. This will ensure that the budget and laws established for public schools cannot be interrupted in an untimely manner, allowing school districts to begin planning and budgeting immediately.http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0345.pdf. Title: H.B. 345 Source: legislature.idaho.gov ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Creates a formula for funding dual credit courses for eligible students from the overall budget determined by the legislature. Creates a formula for providing additional resources for school districts to implement the state's increased graduation requirement for math and science courses, from the overall budget determined by the legislature. Establishes a fractional average daily attendance funding system for dual enrolled students and students who enroll in onling courses, if the school district has no contract in place with the content provider. Registration for online courses is done through each district's normal registration process. Creates a funding formula that provides the necessary resources for the pay for performance plan. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1184.pdf Title: S.B. 1184 -Finance Formula Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov NY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Defines "three-year average free and reduced price lunch percent". Transitions calculation of lunch count to incorporate three-year average free and reduced price lunch percent instead of an annual count. Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y Title: S.B. 2808 - Part A, Sec. 25 Source: assembly.state.ny.us OH Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Repeals references to the evidence-based school funding model (sections 3306.18, 3306.25, 3306.30, 3306.31, 3306.33, 3306.34, 3306.35, 3306.40 as created by 2009 H.B. 1 http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf). Repeals section 3315.17 creating a textbook and instructional material fund, and section 3315.171 relating to alternative revenue sources for textbook and instructional materials fund. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 30 - Evidence-Based Funding Model Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us KS Adopted 03/2011 P-12 Allows Fort leavenworth Unified School Distrit 207 t0 transport grades 10 through 12 students who reside at Forth Leavenworth to Leavenworth High School in Unified School District 453. Requires related transportation weighting to be calculated using only students counted on September 20. Bill also changes the school finance law to redefine non-resident pupil. Non-resident pupil would be defined as a student or member of the student's family who lives 2.5 or more files from the attendance center the student would attend in the district in which the student resides. Previously was "10 miles or more". Bill clarifies that provisions of the bill would not apply to school districts located in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee or Wyandotte counties. http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/sb11_01_0000.pdf Title: S.B. 11 Source: http://kslegislature.org/ SD Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Revises certain provisions concerning state aid to education, to revise and provide for the adjustment of the per student allocation for the state aid to general education formula, and to revise certain property tax levies for the general fund of a school district. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bills/SB152ENR.pdf Title: S.B. 152 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us WY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Relates to school finance; implementing 2010 recalibration modifications to the Wyoming education resource block grant model; eliminating superfluous and fully executed provisions; modifying the early reading program; clarifying reimbursable expenditures; establishing a monitoring process for model cost-based resourcing; imposing reporting requirements; establishing repository for certified staff data and initiating process for data maintenance and usage; and providing for an effective date. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2011/Engross/HB0127.pdf Title: H.B. 127 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us NE Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 From the fiscal note: Repeals the section of statute requiring a student achievement coordinator at NDE. The general fund savings from eliminating the position will be $103,420 in FY12 and FY13. Increases teacher and administrator certificate fees from $55 to $70 with increases to provide for the expenses of 1.6 FTE at NDE who investigate alleged violations of professional ethics and practices by educators. Transfers funds remaining in the School District Reorganization Fund on July 1, 2011to the Education Innovation Fund. The balance of the reorganization fund was $702,178 on December 31, 2010. NDE anticipates there will be an additional reorganization that will be eligible for reimbursement from the fund in the current year in the amount of $425,915. So, the projected revenue that will be transferred to the Education Innovation Fund is estimated to be slightly in excess of $276,300, depending upon the interest earned the remainder of the fiscal year. Education Innovation Fund: The bill changes the allocation of the Education Innovation Fund beginning in FY2011-12 through FY2015-16. The fund is derived from lottery proceeds. Current law provides for the first $1 million of the fund to be used for the Excellence in Teaching Act and the remainder to be allocated, after administrative expenses, for distance education equipment and incentives provided to school districts and educational service units. Provides for the accumulated balance and annual revenue of the Education Innovation Fund to be used to fund a couple of existing state aid programs for high ability learners and early childhood education grants. The high ability learner program will be funded with lottery funds for five years and early childhood education grants will be shifted to this fund source for two years. The Center for Student Leadership and Extended Learning Act, a state funded program, is also switched to lottery funding for the next five years as is the multicultural education program. An integrated student information system will also be funded by the Education Innovation Fund. Continues funding for distance education equipment, incentives and administration but instead of $1 million being set aside for this program each fiscal year, the bill provides that only the amount necessary to fund loans for students who received a loan in the prior fiscal year through the Attracting Excellence to Teaching component of the program will be funded. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Intro/LB333.pdf Title: L.B. 333 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov UT Signed into law 02/2011 P-12 Changes the method for distributing state at-risk funding. Repeals references to the at-risk flow through program and the homeless and disadvantaged minority students program, and creates the Enhancement for At-Risk Students Program. Provides that this new funding program will disburse funds according to a formula adopted by the state board of education that must include the following criteria: (1) low performance on U-PASS tests; (2) poverty; (3) mobility; (4) limited English proficiency. Monies must be used to improve the academic achievement of students at risk of academic failure. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0001.pdf Companion to House Bill 2: http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/hbillenr/hb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 1 - Section 53A-17a-164 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 02/2011 P-12 Repeals references to the gifted and talented program and the Advanced Placement program; creates new Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program. Directs the state board of education to distribute funds appropriated for the Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program according to a formula adopted by the state board, after consultation with districts and charter schools. Permits a distribution formula for the Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program to include an allocation of funds for Advanced Placement courses, gifted and talented programs, including professional development for teachers of high-ability students, and International Baccalaureate programs. Provides that no more than 1.5% of the appropriation for the Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program may be allowed for International Baccalaureate programs. Directs the state board to develop performance criteria to measure the effectiveness of the Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program and make an annual report to the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee on the effectiveness of the program. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0001.pdf Companion to H.B. 2 http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/hbillenr/hb0002.pdf Title: S.B. 1 - Section 53A-17a-165 Source: le.utah.gov NE Signed into law 02/2011 P-12 Fiscal Note summary: LB 18 amends the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act (TEEOSA) which is the formula used to distribute state aid to education. Increases the needs calculated for school systems from 100% to 102.23% in the current school year, FY2010-11. The amount of aid received by a school is the difference between calculated needs and formula resources. The formula is changed to increase state aid to include one-time allocations from the federal Education Jobs Fund in FY2010-11. Federal funds expended pursuant to the bill are considered to be general fund operating expenditures for purposes of state aid. The funds are to be allocated to schools on the last business day of April. School districts are not required to revise previously adopted budgets for FY2010-11 unless expenditures are increased in FY2010-11 with the additional state aid received per LB 18. The bill also changes the certification date for state aid for two fiscal years. The aid certification date for aid distributed in the current fiscal year is changed to on or before March 1, 2011. The subsequent year's state aid for FY2011-12 is to be certified on or before July 1, 2011. The State Department of Education estimates the formula change will increase state aid to schools by $58,610,740 in FY2010-11. Increased expenditures by school districts result in increased state aid two years later per the state aid formula. However, any future general fund fiscal impact of the one-time allocation of federal funds is dependent upon whether increased funds are used by schools to spend at a higher level or are used to offset revenue shortfalls. This fiscal note assumes the majority of schools will be using the proceeds to offset decreases in other resources, so no future fiscal impact is projected. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB18.pdf Title: L.B. 18 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov IL Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 In provisions concerning the account of expenditures for transitional bilingual education programs, requires that at least 60% of state bilingual funds be used for instructional costs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-1170.pdf Title: S.B. 3635 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Deletes language providing that the state board of education must provide the primary source of funding through appropriations for the grants for preschool educational program and that the funds must be distributed for the benefit of certain children. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0948.pdf Title: S.B. 2594 Source: www.ilga.gov RI Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 From RILIN "2010 List of Legislative Accomplishments": Establishes the first statewide education funding formula the state has had in 15 years. The formula, which takes effect for the 2012 fiscal year, provides a core amount for each student statewide, additional funding to help close the achievement gap between wealthy and poor students, and adjustments for the community's poverty concentration and its ability to support its schools through its property tax base. Bill text: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/law10125.htm 2010 List of Legislative Accomplishments (education on pp 2-3): http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/Documents/2010%20legislative%20accomplishmentse.doc DOE summary: http://www.ride.ri.gov/Finance/Funding/FundingFormula/Docs/Funding_Formula_Summary_by_Section_H8094Aaa.pdf Title: H.B. 8094, S.B. 2770 Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us and www.ride.ri.gov HI Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Defines "student instructional hours" as time during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly-scheduled instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum, and excludes lunch, recess or passing time. Directs the department of education to maximize the amount of student instructional hours provided at all public schools, except charter schools, under relevant collective bargaining agreements in effect during the 2010-11 school year. For the 2011-13 school years, directs all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a 180-day school year (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 915 student instructional hours for the elementary grades, and 990 student instructional hours for the secondary grades. For the 2013-15 school years, requires all public schools, except charter schools, to implement a school year of 1,080 days (excluding professional development and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,080 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades.Directs the department of education to submit to the legislature, within 20 days of the convening of the regular 2012 session, a plan to implement a 190-day school year (excluding professional development days and other non-instructional days) that includes 1,140 student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades at all public schools, except charter schools, for school years beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Adds provision that if the implementation of student instructional hours results in varying student transportation schedules, the department must consider pick-up and drop-off times that optimize the department's transportation services while minimizing costs to the state. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/HB2486_CD1_.HTM Title: H.B. 2486 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov OK Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 For state funding purposes, requires the state department to include the appropriate grade level weight and all category weights to which the pupil is assigned when calculating State Aid, regardless of whether the receiving district provides education to the student using traditional in-class means or via online instruction. The weighted membership of nonresident, transferred pupils enrolled in online courses is to be based on the weighted average daily membership of the preceding school year. For the portion of weighted membership derived from nonresident, transferred pupils enrolled in online courses, the Foundation Program shall be a district's weighted average daily membership of the preceding school year or the first nine (9) weeks of the current school year, whichever is greater, multiplied by the Base Foundation Support Level. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB2109_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 2109 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/ MO Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 In fiscal years 2011 through 2013 the requirement for school districts to dedicate 1% of their formula funding to professional development and the 75% funding and fund placement requirements for teacher salaries will be suspended if the school funding formula or transportation categorical is underfunded as specified or will be suspended in the following fiscal year if the Governor withholds funds from the school funding formula. http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.house.mo.gov GA Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 From bill summary: Temporarily waives certain expenditure controls relating to funds earned for direct instructional costs, media center costs, staff and professional development costs, and additional days of instruction. Temporarily provides for system average maximum class sizes in grades K-8. Provides for blanket waivers or variances of class size requirements. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb908.pdf Title: H.B. 908 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us AZ Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Bill makes multiple technical changes to the state's school funding formula along with the following major revisions: (1) Clarifies calculations for adjusting the Base Level relating to Optional 200-day, Career Ladder, Optional Performance Incentive Program and Additional Teacher Compensation; and (2) establishes Teacher Certification Fund (Fund) at ADE and appropriates $429,700 in FY 2011 for expenses related to teacher certification. Requires ADE to transfer $429,700 from the Fund to the general fund by June 30, 2011. Chapter 306 http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/24/summary/s.1284ed_asenacted.doc.htm Title: S.B. 1284 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ IL Adopted 05/2010 P-12 These proposed amendments make numerous changes to the way in which the Temporary Relocation Program operates that respond to various circumstances that school districts have encountered over the last several years. Under this program, a school district may receive a loan to assist with both the direct and indirect costs of moving students to a temporary location due to natural or man-made disasters that destroy or make a school building uninhabitable. As a condition of receiving the loan, a district must levy a tax for this purpose and pledge the proceeds from that levy, as well as from any insurance proceeds received, to repay the loan. Pages 230-239 of http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume34_issue19.pdf Title: 23 IAC 145.10, .20, .30, .50, .60 Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com CO Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Creates the alternative school funding models pilot program to encourage school districts and charter schools to collect data that will be used to compare the effects of alternative school funding models with those of the actual school funding method. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E0E6094B51A15E3C872576AA0069924D?open&file=1183_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1183 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us NE Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Postsec. Provides for the calculation of state aid for unified systems and makes changes related to the early childhood education programs to be included in the calculation of state aid, as well as district responsibilities for students participating in open enrollment. Also changes the graduate program requirements for the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program to include graduate studies other than teacher education programs. Among other provisions, removes a redundant reporting requirement for county assessors to certify taxable value of school districts; clarifies residency provisions for school districts; modifies qualifications for preschool programs that receive state aid funds; and harmonizes the calculation of unused budget authority with recent changes in the budget authority provisions for school districts. Defines the educational service unit coordinating council as a political subdivision, but does not grant taxing authority. Also requires the board to adopt a policy for sharing student data with the University of Nebraska Regents, the Nebraska State Colleges board of trustees and the board of governors from each community college area. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB1071.pdf Title: L.B. 1071 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov CO Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Authorizes the state education department to contract with an organization to evaluate the feasibility of a system based on the average number of days that a student is enrolled in a district during the year rather than on a single count date. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/3A6FD049FFBD68BE872576A8002A88E5?open&file=008_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 8 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Adds Section 53A-17a-105.5. Defines "qualifying program" as (1) the at-risk flow through program; (2) the homeless and disadvantaged minority students program [both created in 53A-17a-121]; (3) the gifted and talented program; (4) the advanced placement program; (5) the concurrent enrollment program. Allows a district or charter school that receives a state allocation of less than $10,000 for a qualifying program to either (1) combine the funds with certain other program funds and use the combined funds in accordance with the program requirements for any of the qualifying programs that are combined; or (2) transfer the funds to a qualifying program for which the district or charter school received an allocation of funds that is greater than or equal to $10,000; and use the combined funds in accordance with the program requirements for the qualifying program to which the funds are transferred. Pages 5-6 of 6: http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0149.pdf Title: H.B. 149 - Section 3 Source: le.utah.gov CA Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2010 P-12 Amends three sections of the audit guide to bring the regulations into conformance with legislation enacted effective July 28, 2009 (Assembly Bill 2 of the 2009-10 Fourth Extraordinary Session (ABX4 2), Chapter 2, Statutes 2009). Legislation, which is applicable to fiscal years 2009-10 through 2012-13, provides that "a school district, county office of education, or charter school may reduce the equivalent of up to five days of instruction or the equivalent number of instructional minutes without incurring the penalties set forth in Sections 41420, 46200, 46200.5, 46201, 46201.5, 46202, and 47612.5". Title: Title 5 CCR Sections 19824, 19851, 19854 Source: WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Adopts the technical details of a new k-12 funding distribution formula for the instructional program of basic education and authorizing a phase-in of implementation of a new formula for pupil transportation; adopts an implementation schedule for phasing-in enhancements to the baseline funding levels; requires the calculation of an annual estimate of the savings to taxpayers resulting from any improvement compared to the prior school year in the extended graduation rate. Chapter 236 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House%20Final/2776-S%20HBR%20FBR%2010%20E1.pdf Title: H.B. 2776 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov RI Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Urges the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to hold community forums throughout the state to describe the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE)'s education funding formula, explaining its components, and providing details about its methods and results. Also requests that the Commissioner prioritize reaching out to those communities that request more information. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/res10/res10110.htm Title: H.R. 7895 Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us SD Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Revises the definition of the general fund base percentage in the calculation of state aid to education. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bills/HB1108ENR.pdf Title: H.B. 1108 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us UT Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Provides that if monies appropriated to charter schools to replace local property taxes are less than the amount prescribed by a statutory funding formula, monies must be allocated among charter schools in proportion to each charter school's share of the total enrollment in charter schools. Also provides that if monies appropriated for charter school administrative costs are insufficient to provide the amount per student prescribed in statute, the appropriation must be allocated among charter schools in proportion to each charter school's share of the total enrollment in charter schools. Repeals Section 53A-17a-104, "Amount of state's contribution toward minimum school program" and 53A-21-501, "State contribution to capital outlay programs". http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0001.pdf Title: H.B. 1 Source: le.utah.gov SD Signed into law 02/2010 P-12 Repeals provisions related to tuition for students transferring from a resident district that does not receive state aid to education; repeals provisions related to state aid to education for students transferring to a nonresident school district that does not receive state aid to education. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bills/SB25ENR.pdf Title: S.B. 25 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us KY Adopted 01/2010 P-12 Adds section providing definitions of: "full day of attendance" (student in attendance at least 65% of regularly-scheduled school day), "tardy" (student absent less than 35% of the regularly-scheduled school day), "half-day absence" (student absent 35-84% of regularly-scheduled school day), and "full-day absence" (student absent 85% or more of regularly-scheduled school day). According to the fiscal impact statement in the proposed rule change, "This change could increase individual local districts' average daily attendance (ADA) calculation, thus increasing SEEK [Support Education Excellence in Kentucky] payments to districts[;] however, any increases will still remain subject to the aggregate SEEK appropriation." Eliminates withdrawal code "W09" for a student who has graduated or completed a 504 plan or an individual education plan prior to the end of the school term or year. Adds the following withdrawal codes for indicating student enrollment status: W28 - student has reached the maximum age for education services without receiving a diploma or certificate of attainment C01 - student completes the school year in the school of the most current enrollment G01 - student graduates in less than 4 years G02 - student graduates in 4 years G03 - student graduates in 5 or more years G04 - studento graduates in 6 or more years NS - student completed the prior year with a C01 and was expected to enroll in the district but did not enroll by October 1 of the current year whose enrollment elsewhere cannot be substantiated. Adds that each student's ethnicity must be designated as either Hispanic/Latino or not Hispanic/Latino. Also clarifies that more than one racial codes may be applied to an individual student. Separates out "Pacific Islander" from "Asian" as a unique racial code. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/125reg.htm Title: 702 KAR 7:125 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov MI Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Revises definition of membership for certain pupils placed in foster care by providing that a pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence shall be counted in the educating district. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/pdf/2009-PA-0187.pdf Title: H.B. 5299 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/ NE Signed into law 11/2009 P-12 Appropriations bill (passed in special session). Changes and eliminates provisions relating to disbursement of income tax receipts, calculation of formula need, elementary site allowance, teacher education adjustment, and instructional time allowance and expenditure limits as prescribed; provides for calculation of a teacher education allowance; relates to english proficiency, distance education, summer school, teacher education and elementary site allowances. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB545A.pdf Title: L.B. 545A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Adopted 11/2009 P-12 Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in nature or echo recent changes in legislation): Section 1.20: Revised to distinguish among the appropriate levels of sign-off on the corrective plan a district must submit depending on whether a school or the district has been placed on probation. Adds a provision allowing a district's or school's status to be changed to "nonrecognized" if, at any time that a corrective action plan is in effect, the state superintendent determines that the agreed-upon actions are not being implemented in accordance with the plan or the underlying areas of noncompliance are not being remedied. Section 1.30: Updated to refer to state assessment accommodations now allowed for limited English proficient students, and now specifies when time extensions will be made available to those students (in response to P.A. 94-642, which authorized the state board to allow additional time "by rule"). Revises labels used to describe scores on the Illinois Alternate Assessment, and updates rule on review and verification of assessment information. Section 1.100: Adds details so that staff of districts and other eligible applicants will have more specific guidance as to what is expected as part of the process for receiving waivers and modifications of requirements in the school code or administrative rules. Section 1.240: Expanded to include a reference to gender identity among the prohibited bases for discrimination because it may otherwise not be clear that gender identity is encompassed in the definition of "sexual orientation". Section 1.420: Adds provision specifying that each district's plan for recording student progress and/or awarding credit must include credit for courses completed by correspondence, online or from other external sources. Specifies that a district may count four clock-hours as a day of instruction only due to a condition beyond the district's control; specifies other requirements that must be met for the state superintendent to approve a district's request to use "multiple sessions" to fulfill school day requirements. Specifies that students in attendance for at least 150 but fewer than 240 minutes of school work may be counted for a half-day of attendance; students in attendance for fewer than 150 minutes of school work are not to be counted for purposes of calculating average daily attendance. Emphasizes the meaning of the portion of the rule on library media programs that distinguishes between the services that may be performed only by certified library information specialists and the other tasks that may be inherent in districts' operation of their programs. Section 1.465 (on awarding of credit for foreign language study in an ethnic school program) and 1.480 (on correctional institution educational programs): Generally updated, including the insertion of current statutory citations. Section 1.510: Main revision conveys state board's interpretation that districts may not pick and choose among students in the same situation once they elect to transport some students. Section 1.737: Updated to complement new requirements for endorsements in safety and driver education that will take effect in 2012. Pages 324-388 of 432: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume33_issue45.pdf Title: 23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737 Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Requires, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, recalculation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the prior year average daily attendance for each regional occupational center or program pursuant to a prescribed statute to apply a percentage reduction equal to the percentage applied for center or program growth in the Budget Act of 2008. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_673_bill_20090827_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_673_vt_20091012.html Title: A.B. 673 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 From Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides a revenue limit adjustment for a school district or county office of education that offers a minimum beginning teacher salary. This bill would recast and revise these provisions to generally delete their application to school districts as of July 1, 2010. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_851_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 851 - Revenue Limit Adjustment Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Repeals provision that provides that charter schools are eligible for a transportation allowance to cover the costs of purchasing or renting vehicles, contracting and paying for the transportation of pupils to and from school by a common carrier or a municipally owned transit system, or contracting with and paying responsible private parties for the transportation. Page 4 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_509_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 509 - Charter School Transportation Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2009 P-12 States legislative intent that the state of California generate sufficient funds for, and allocate sufficient funds to education, so as to bring per-pupil spending up to or beyond the national average, and to a level that accounts for the actual cost of educating California's diverse pupil population. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/acr_54_bill_20090916_chaptered.pdf Title: A.C.R. 54 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IA Signed into law 09/2009 P-12 Provides for the establishment of the categorical state percentage of growth (2%) for purposes of the state school foundation program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF217 Title: S.B. 217 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 09/2009 P-12 Provides for the establishment of the state percentage of growth (2%) for purposes of the state school foundation program for 2010. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF218 Title: S.B. 218 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us UT Adopted 09/2009 P-12 Existing provision requires School Land Trust Funds to be focused on schools' critical academic needs. Amends definition of "critical academic needs" for purposes of this provision. Changes definition from "school's weakness(es) in academic areas for which there is a Utah Core curriculum" to "needs identified in the school improvement plan developed in accordance with Section 53A-1a-108.5." Also changes from "critical academic needs" to "most critical academic needs." Adds that programs not eligible for School LAND Trust Program monies include plans to improve school climate, provide security, address behavioral issues, prevent bullying, install permanent auditorium audio systems, and initiate or support other non-academic school needs. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090701/32733.htm Title: R277-477 Source: www.rules.utah.gov IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Provides that, if a district closes one or more (but not all) schools during a public health emergency, the district may claim a full day of attendance based on the average of the three days of attendance preceding the closure. Replaces requirement that teacher and certain administrator certification candidates pass a test of subject area knowledge with requirement that an assessment of professional teaching, and a test of subject matter knowledge; allows another state's basic skills and subject area knowledge test to substitute for a passing score on the state test. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB2675lv.pdf Title: H.B. 2675 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Provides that if a school district is precluded from offering the minimum hours of instruction for a full attendance day due to inclement weather, or due to a condition beyond the district's control that poses a threat to students' health and safety, the partial day of attendance may be counted if (i) the school district has provided at least one hour of instruction prior to the closure of the school district, (ii) a school building has provided at least one hour of instruction prior to the closure of the school building, or (iii) the normal start time of the school district is delayed. Adds provisions for calculating average daily attendance if a district is required to close one or more but not all school buildings after consultation with a local emergency response agency or due to a condition beyond the control of the school district. Repeals existing legislation related to awarding of attendance days when health and safety issues preclude student attendance. Pages 31-35 of 63: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1977lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1977 - Calculating Average Daily Attendance Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Amends provisions concerning average daily attendance under the state aid formula. Makes changes with respect to days that are used for an in-service training program for teachers and parent-teacher conferences. Authorizes a school board to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes, parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third Monday in January (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday); February 12 (Abraham Lincoln's birthday); the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that (1) the person(s) honored by the holiday are recognized through instructional activities conducted on that day or, if school is not in session, the school day before or after that day, and (2) a public hearing is held for educators and parents. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1956lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1956 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Relates to the Early Childhood Education Block Grant. Replaces provision that 11% of grant to be used to fund programs for children age 0-3 with provision that at least 11% of grant be used for such purposes. Requires this percentage to increase to 20% by the 2015 fiscal year. Provides exceptions to these provisions. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1412lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1412 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Postsec. Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Adjusts payments to community schools and STEM schools as well as other payments/transfers: --Sets the formula amount for community schools and STEM schools at $5,718 in FY 2010 and $5,703 in FY 2011, except for computing deductions and payments for special education and vocational education. --For special education and vocational education, specifies that deductions and payments be computed by multiplying the respective fiscal year 2009 weight times $5,732. --Sets the formula amount at $5,732 for both fiscal years for open enrollment and postsecondary enrollment options (dual enrollment) students. --Authorizes the state superintendent and the chancellor of the board of regents jointly to adopt rules allowing school districts, community schools, STEM schools, and nonpublic schools to enter into alternative funding agreements to use an alternate funding formula to calculate or alternate method to transmit payments to colleges and universities for high school students taking college courses through postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), including Seniors to Sophomores. --Amends Section 3365.04, 3365.041, 3365.07, 3365.08 and 3365.10 to allow for alternate funding agreements to cover the costs of participation in PSEO programs. Pages 1252-1253, 1503-1510 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.088, 3365.04, 3365.041, 3365.07, 3365.08, 3365.10 and 3365.12 Source: www.ode.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 3317.03: Requires each student enrolled in kindergarten to be counted as a full-time equivalent student regardless of whether or not the student is enrolled in full-day kindergarten class. 3321.01: Repeals references permitting a district that is not eligible to receive poverty-based assistance for all-day kindergarten to charge fees or tuition for students enrolled in all-day kindergarten. 3321.05: Defines "all day kindergarten" as a kindergarten class that is in session five days a week for at least the same number of clock hours each day as for students in grades 1-6. Provides that, beginning in FY 2011, districts must provide all-day kindergarten to each kindergarten student. Allows local boards to apply to the state superintendent for a waiver from the all-day kindergarten for all students requirement. Permits the state superintendent, in determining whether to grant the waiver, to consider space concerns or alternative delivery approaches the district may use. Requires districts to accommodate kindergarten students whose parents wish to enroll them in half-day kindergarten. Permits a district to use space in a child day-care center licensed by the department of job and family services to provide all-day kindergarten to district students. 265.70.70: Authorizes any district or community school that in FY 2009 charged fees or tuition for students in all-day kindergarten, as it existed prior to the effective date of this section, to charge fees or tuition to all-day kindergarten students in FY 2010 and FY 2011, at the same per student rate charged in FY 2009. Bars districts and community schools from charging fees or tuition for all-day kindergarten after FY 2011. Pages 1310-1324, 1403-1407 and 2841 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3317.03, 3321.01, 3321.05 and 265.70.70 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the department of education to report the following to the director of budget and management and the legislative service commission: (1) Changes in formulas for distributing state appropriations, including administratively defined formula factors (2) Discretionary changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations (3) Federally mandated changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations. Requires that any such changes be reported two weeks prior to the effective date of the change. Page 2826 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.40.80 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 At the state superintendent's request, requires any entity that receives a budget earmark under the state department of education to submit annually to the the chairs of the house and senate education committees and the department of education a report that includes a description of the services supported by the funds and of the results achieved by those services, an analysis of the effectiveness of the program, and an opinion as to the program's applicability to other school districts. Provides that for an earmarked entity that received state funds from an earmark in the prior fiscal year, the department shall provide no funds to an earmarked entity for a fiscal year until its report for the prior fiscal year has been submitted. Page 2833 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.70 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 New Chapter 3306.: As described in the bill analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC), "The bill enacts a new R.C. Chapter 3306., and revises many other existing codified laws, to establish a new system of financing for school districts and other public entities that provide primary and secondary education. A detailed analysis of the current and proposed school funding systems is available in the LSC Redbook for the Department of Education, published on the LSC Web site at http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/budgetdocuments.html From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Also permits school districts to use state funds provided under the school funding formula for the modification or purchase of classroom space to provide all-day kindergarten or reduce class sizes in grades K-3 if those funds are not specifically allocated for another purpose and the district certifies to the department its need for additional space. Section 3306.011: Requires that payments under the evidence-based model replace the former method of allocating funds to districts, beginning in FY 2010. Section 3306.012: Specifies that the SF-3, the department of education form formerly used to calculate funding to a school district, after the effective date of this section will be known as the "PASS form", PASS being an acronym for "PAthway to Student Success". Requires the form to be available to the public in a format understandable to the average citizen. Section 3306.02: Establishes certain definitions for funding purposes: --"Building manager": Individual who supervises the administrative (non-curricular, non-instructional) functions of school operation so that a school principal can focus on supporting instruction, providing instructional leadership, and engaging teachers as part of the instructional leadership team. Specifies that a building manager is not required to be a licensed educator. --"Category one ..." through "category six special education ADM", with category one being low-need students and category six being highest-need students. --"Counselor": A licensed individual who provides pre-college and career counseling, general academic counseling, course planning and other counseling services that are not related to a student's individualized education plan. --"Lead teacher": A teacher who provides mentoring and coaching for new teachers, and who also assists in coordinating professional development activities, developing professional learning communities and common planning time, and who assists teachers in developing project-based, real-world learning activities. Requires that the lead teacher position be a rotating position in which an individual serves no more than 3 years. Provides that, once lead teacher licenses become available under Section 3319.22, only teachers who hold such licensure may be appointed as lead teachers. Until that time, directs each district to designate qualifications for the lead teacher position and give preference for the position to national board-certified teachers or who meet the qualifications for a "master teacher" established by the educator standards board. --"Ohio educational challenge factor": An index to adjust each district's funding amount to account for student and community socioeconomic factors affecting teacher recruitment and retention, professional development, and other factors related to quality instruction. Provides each district's challenge factor includes the district's college attainment rate, per-pupil wealth, and concentration of poverty (see new section 3306.051). --"Organizational unit": Unit used to index a district's formula ADM in certain grade levels. In recognition of the fact that students have different educational needs at each developmental stage, organizational units group the grade levels into elementary school units, middle school units, and high school units. A district's "organizational units" is the sum of its elementary, middle and high school units. Section 3306.051: Specifies that the Ohio educational challenge factor is based on: (1) The college attainment rate of the school district's population (2) The district's wealth per pupil, based on property valuation and federal adjusted gross income (3) The district's concentration of poverty, based on its targeted poverty indicator. Establishes each district's Ohio educational challenge factor for FY 2010 and 2011. Pages 1060-1069 and 1071-1087 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.01, 3306.011, 3306.012, 3306.02, 3306.051 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Section 3306.03: Establishes the method for determining each district's adequacy amount. Section 3306.04: Directs the department, in calculating each district's adequacy amount, to calculate the number of the district's organizational units. Specifies that for each small school district (district with formula ADM of under 418 students), the number of organizational units is one organizational unit. Section 3306.05: Establishes the method for determining each district's instructional services support component. Pages 1069-1071 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.03, 3306.04, 3306.05 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Establishes the method of calculating the following components of each district's adequacy amount: Section 3306.06: "Additional services support component" (includes 5 factors: family and community liaison; counselor; summer remediation; school nurse wellness coordinator; district health provider). Section 3306.07: "Administrative services support component" (includes 3 factors: district administration; principal; administrative support personnel). Section 3306.08: "Operations and maintenance support component" Section 3306.09: "Gifted education support component" (includes 4 factors: gifted identification, gifted coordinator, gifted intervention specialist, gifted intervention specialist professional development). Section 3306.091: "Enrichment support component" (calculated by multiplying the district's formula ADM times $100 times the Ohio educational challenge factor). Specifies the enrichment support component must be used for purposes other than services for students identified as gifted. Authorizes a district to spend the enrichment support component to pay for enrichment activities to encourage the intellectual and creative pursuits of all students, including the fine arts. Section 3306.10: "Technology resources support component" (includes 2 factors: licensed librarian and media specialist, and technical equipment). Section 3306.11: Calculating special education teacher and aide positions within "instructional services support" in new Section 3306.05. Section 3306.12: Establishes definitions for purposes of funding student transportation, and methods for making such calculations. Section 3306.13: Revises the definition of "potential value", used in calculating the adjustment to the local share of certain school districts, to distinguish between districts levying 20.1 or more effective class one mills and districts levying fewer than 20.1 effective class one mills. Section 3306.18: Directs the state superintendent to annually certify to the state board of education the amount each district expended in the previous fiscal year on each factor of the district's adequacy amount. Section 3306.19: [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Guarantees each district, in FY 2010, 99% of its previous year's base and, in FY 2011, 98% of its previous year's base. Sets the gain cap at 3/4 of 1% more than the previous year's base. Sections 3306.191 and 3306.192: Method of calculating additional transitional aid in FY 2010 and 2011 to certain school districts. Section 3306.25: Directs the state superintendent to adopt rules prescribing standards for the expenditure of funds under the school finance system as revised by H.B. 1, and for the reporting of expenditures of those funds for particular funded components, so that funds are directed toward the purposes for which they were calculated. Specifies that rules regarding reporting standards under the following components shall not take effect before July 2010; rules regarding spending standards shall not take effect before July 2011. Directs the superintendent to determine the funded components included in the three categories of: (1) Core academic strategy components, i.e., those components fundamental to successful education practices in the 21st century for all students. [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Specifies that the superintendent's rules for spending and reporting of components in the core academic strategy components must provide flexibility in determining how to spend funds, depending on the district's current performance rating, instead of merely requiring flexibility for "effective" and "excellent" districts. Specifies that the higher the rating, the greater the flexibility the rules must provide, and that districts rated "excellent" or "excellent with distinction" are not subject to spending rules (except to the all-day kindergarten requirements), but are subject to reporting rules. (2) Academic improvement components, i.e., components that have been demonstrated to make the greatest improvement in the academic achievement of underperforming students. Specifies that rules adopted for academic improvement components must prescribe spending and reporting standards, but that these will apply only to districts in "academic emergency" or "academic watch" for two or more consecutive years. (3) Other components. Specifies that these rules will prescribe only reporting and not spending requirements or standards, but will be applicable to all school districts. Pages 1088-1101 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.06, 3306.07, 3306.08, 3306.09, 3306.091, 3306.10, 3306.11, 3306.12, 3306.13, 3306.18, 3306.19, 3306.191, 3306.192, Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: --Sets the payment for career-technical education services at 3/4 of 1% more than the previous year's amount. --[Section 3306.02(C)] Defines "career-technical education teacher" for purposes of funding the evidence-based model, as an educational professional holding a license to provide specialized instruction in career and technical courses. --Specifies that districts may use career-technical funding under the evidence-based model only for career-technical programming approved by the state department of education. Directs the department to require districts to annually report data to allow the department to monitor spending of career-technical funding. Pages 1064, 1087-1088 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.052, 3306.02(C) Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools. Also requires the 2010 report to include: (1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs (2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding (3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers (4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning (5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts (6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts. Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to): (1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies (2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time (3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement (4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices (5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms. Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent. Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council. Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OR Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Modifies the method of calculating the amount received by the Department of Education from the State School Fund to educate children in hospital programs and in long-term care or treatment programs. Chapter 439 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0001.dir/sb0070.en.pdf Title: S.B. 70 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us UT Adopted 07/2009 P-12 Provides significant new and revised language throughout to reflect legislative audit findings and funding formula study committee recommendations regarding student transportation standards and procedures. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090515/32644.htm Title: R277-600 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Adopted 07/2009 P-12 Changes the percentage and the criteria for which funds are allocated to local Adult Education programs consistent with findings from the state legislative audit of the adult education program. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090515/32647.htm Title: R277-733 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to disregard any deficiency in the number of days of session for school closures related to the H1N1 swine flu virus. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08710&sh=t Title: A.B. 8710 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires districts to provide uniform data collection and reporting for how finance formula funds are spent on certain students and activities, including: at-risk students, career and technical education course units, special education students other than gifted and talented students, and gifted and talented students, professional services, instructional materials, equipment and supplies. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667658 Title: H.B. 821 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ MO Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula. Beginning on July 1, 2010 moneys derived from the passage of Prposition A will be deposited into the Classroom Trust Fund and distributed to school districts in that manner. Act modifies the definition of "special education pupil count". Special education pupil count now includes the number of public school students with a services plan. The special education section of the act becomes effective July 1, 2009. http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf Title: S.B. 291--Education Funding Source: http://wwww.senate.mo.gov WI Vetoed 06/2009 P-12 Line-item veto: Provision would have provided a 10% bonus to districts that would be willing to take in students from outside of their district. However, to qualify, at least 10% of the district's student population would be required to come from out of district. Pages 471-472 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Provides that the school district clerk of a first-class city school system must include in its annual financial report filed with the city clerk (and which must also be sent to the state superintendent) the number of pupils enrolled on the 3rd Friday of September, the 2nd Friday of January, or the first Friday of May, whichever is highest, along with data on pupils enrolled in specified programs. Page 477 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Creates 121.91 (2m) (t) to provide exceptions to methods of determining the revenue limit of two or more districts that consolidate. Page 481 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Adds 121.91 (4) (L). Defines "local law enforcement agency". Provides additional funding if a local board and local law enforcement agency (1) jointly develop a school safety plan that specifies the purposes of the additional revenue, (2) the school safety plan is consistent with the school safety plan required under s. 118.07 (4), and the school board submits the school safety plan to the department. Provides the excess revenue may be used to purchase school safety equipment, fund the compensation costs of security officers, or for school safety expenditures consistent with the school safety plan. Provides additional funding to cover the salaries and benefits of school nurses and transportation. Adds new provision to incentivize energy efficiency measures and renewable energy products that result in the avoidance of, or reduction in, energy costs. Pages 481-482 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Caps the amount that districts can raise/spend for the 2010-11, 2011-12 & 2012-13 school years. Provides that districts can increase their spending by $200 in the 2010-11 school year, by $275 in the 2011-12 school year, and by the rate of inflation for the 2012-13 school year. Page 480: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 17: Directs the commissioner, in reviewing a funding application for an extended year program, to give priority to districts with high concentrations of educationally disadvantaged students. Section 18: Brings provisions related to flexible school day program applications in line with provisions outlined in 2009 H.B. 1297 (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01297F.pdf) Section 19: Directs the commissioner of education to distribute funds for life skills programs for student parents. Directs the commissioner to give priority to applicant districts that received funds for such a program the preceding year, and then to districts with the highest concentration of students who are pregant or parents. Specifies that a life skills programs for student parents is required only in districts that receive a state grant for this purpose and any other funds available for the program. Pages 13-16 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 17-19 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 60: Provides that additional district allotment for students in average daily attendance in grades 9-12 must be paid at the same time as other state revenue is paid to the district, and must be based on amounts paid during the previous year. Defines how deficits and overpayments are to be addressed. Section 61: Requires annual Foundation School Program payments for specified purposes to be made before a specified deadline for payment of debt service on bonds. Authorizes Foundation School Program payments after the deadline if the commissioner does not receive notice regarding a district's failure or inability to pay matured principal or interest on bonds. Pages 59-60 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 60-61 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 56: Creates new sections 42.159 and 42.160. Section 42.159 provides that for each student who completes a semester-long electronic course that meets a high school graduation requirement and is provided through the state virtual school network as part of a normal course load, the school district or open-enrollment charter school that provided the course is entitled to a $400 allotment, and the district or charter school in which the student is enrolled is entitled to an $80 allotment as reimbursement for associated administrative costs. Specifies that allotment for a completed state virtual school network course that exceeds a normal course load (including a course offered during the summer) must be in an amount determined by the commissioner. Authorizes the commissioner to set aside up to 50% of allotments for normal course load and exceeding course load electronic courses to pay the costs of providing state virtual school network courses allowing students to recover credits for courses in which they were previously unsuccessful. Also authorizes a portion of the set-aside to pay the costs of credit recovery courses for students in alternative education settings, including disciplinary and juvenile justice alternative education programs, and students under the supervision of a juvenile probation department, the Texas Youth Commission, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Bars partial funding from being awarded for any student who begins but does not complete an electronic course. Requires the commissioner to adopt rules regarding specified provisions, including the allotment of district funds for a student who transfers schools or districts after beginning an electronic course. Section 42.160 provides districts and open-enrollment charter schools an allotment of $275 for each student in average daily attendance in grades 9-12. Provides clarification on allotments for a district required to reduce its wealth per student to the equalized wealth level. Directs the commissioner to adopt rules, including rules related to the permissible use of such funds allocated to an open-enrollment charter school. NOTE: This bill also repeals Section 29.909, "Electronic Courses." Page 42-45 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 56 and 57 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 49: Creates new section 42.008. Caps any funding increase that might occur to $350 per student. Section 50: Amends basic allotment formula. Section 51: Amends Section 42.106, "Tuition Allotment for Districts Not Offering All Grade Levels." Section 53: Adds a district allotment for each student who has a parent in active duty in a combat zone or who has an active duty parent who transferred into the district during the school year due to action taken under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Specifies such funds may be used only to provide supplemental programs and services. Establishes conditions under which the commissioner may provide such allotments. Provides such allotments may not exceed $9.9 million in a school year. Specifies these provisions expire September 2013. Section 54: In addition to existing annual allotment for grade 9-12 students in career and technology courses, provides additional $50 for each student who is enrolled in two or more such courses for a total of 3 or more credits, or if student is enrolled in an advanced course as part of a tech-prep program. Section 55: Adds section 42.1541. Directs the state board to increase indirect cost allotments for special education, bilingual education, and career and technical education programs by the start of the 2009-10 school year. Provides section expires September 2010. Pages 34-38 and 40-42 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 49-51 and 53-55 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Specifies that, among other sections repealed, Sections 30A.153, "Allocation of Funds for Students Enrolled in School Districts and Open-Enrollment Charter Schools" and 30A.154, "Funding for Accelerated Students" are repealed. (Accelerated students are those taking more than a normal course load.) Page 105 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 105 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Adds new Subchapter I in Chapter 42 of Education Code. Establishes the Select Committee on Public School Finance Weights, Allotments, and Adjustments to conduct a comprehensive review of weights, allotments and adjustments under the public school finance system. Establishes membership. Requires committee to hold first meeting by October 2009. Directs the committee to hold public hearings throughout the state and solicit testimony about the weights, allotments and adjustments under the finance system from parents of public school students and other interested persons. Requires at least one hearing to be held at a public school during a time that students are able to attend the hearing. Additionally directs the committee to identify specific short term goals that will assist the state in meeting the objectives and goals of public education, and specifies the review must include recommendations on: (1) Methods to close the achievement gap and define and measure readiness for college and the workforce (2) Revisions to the public accountability system (3) Methods for promoting efficient and effective support structures for public schools. By December 2010, requires the committee to provide a report, approved by a majority of committee members, with the findings of its review and the committee's recommendations for statutory changes. Provides subchapter expires January 11, 2011. Pages 63-67 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 65 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 92: Directs the state education agency to evaluate whether providers of different types of electronic courses offered through the state virtual school network should receive varying amounts of state funding based on the type of course provided. Requires the agency to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature by January 2011. Section 93: Directs the state education agency to investigate the feasibility of making language acquisition courses available through the state virtual school network by obtaining state subscriptions or pursuing other possible means of access. Requires the agency to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature by January 2011. If the agency determines that it is feasible to make language acquisition courses available through the network, requires the report to include recommended mechanisms for ensuring progress towards language proficiency of students enrolled in those courses. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 92 and 98 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Relates to the disaster contingency fund and relief for school districts located in a disaster area. Provides that a government entity that receives disaster contingency funding and then receives reimbursement from the federal government, an insurer or another source for those same costs must reimburse the disaster contingency fund. Provides that the fund may pay for a disaster risk financing instrument or be used as local matching funds for FEMA qualifying projects. Provides for local school district funding; provides for property value adjustment after a disaster to ensure school funding. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB04102F.pdf Title: H.B. 4102 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Former law called for the creation of a single financial accountability rating system. New enactment directs the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop separate financial accountability rating systems for districts and charter schools that distinguish among districts and charter schools based on financial performance. Provides the system may not include an indicator or performance measure that requires a district to spend at least 65% of district operating funds or any other specified percentage for instructional purposes, or that lowers a district's financial management performance rating for failure to spend at least 65% or any other specified percentage of district operating funds for instructional purposes. Creates new Section 39.0821, "Comptroller Review of Resource Allocation". Directs the comptroller to identify districts and campuses that use resource allocation practices that contribute to high academic achievement and cost-effective operations. Identifies process for the comptroller to evaluate relative performance of districts and campuses and identify potential areas for district and campus improvement. In reviewing district and campus resource allocation practices, directs the comptroller to ensure resources are being used for instruction by evaluating operating costs for students and programs, and the staffing cost for each student. Adds new Section 39.0822, "Financial Solvency Review Required." Directs the state education agency to develop a review process to anticipate the future financial solvency of each school district. Provides the review process must analyze expeditures and revenues for the previous year, and projected expenditures and revenues for the current and following two school years. Identifies areas of expenditure that the review process must consider for the previous year, and for future years as appropriate. Directs the agency to develop an electronic-based program for districts to use in submitting information for purposes of the review process. Directs the commissioner to adopt rules to allow a district to enter estimates of critical data into the program before the district adopts its budget. Specifies capacities the program must contain, including the capacity to provide alerts for a student-to-staff ratio significantly outside the norm, a rapid depletion of the district general fund balance and a significant discrepancy between actual budget figures and projected revenues and expenditures. Such alerts must be developed to notify the agency immediately on occurence of one of the aforementioned conditions. After the agency is alerted, requires the agency to immediately notify the affected district regarding the condition triggering the alert. Also amends Section 39.083, to require each district's annual financial management report to include a description of the data submitted using the electronic-based program. Adds new Section 39.0823, "Projected Deficit". Provides that if the review process under Section 39.0822 indicates a projected deficit for a school district general fund within the following three school years, the district must provide the agency interim financial reports, supplemented by staff and student count data, as needed, to evaluate the district's current budget status. Provides that if the interim financial data substantiates the projected deficit, the district must develop a financial plan to submit to the agency for approval. Provides the agency may approve the plan only if the agency determines the plan will permit the district to avoid the projected insolvency. Requires the commissioner to assign a district an "accredited-warned" status if the district fails to submit a financial plan to the agency, fails to obtain agency approval for a plan, fails to comply with an agency-approved plan, or the agency determines in a subsequent school year, based on financial data submitted by the district, that the approved plan for the district is no longer sufficient or is not appropriately implemented. Adds new Section 39.084, "Posting of Adopted Budget". Directs a district, upon the board of trustee's final approval of the budget, to post a copy of the adopted budget to the district Web site. Requires the district Web site to prominently display the link to the adopted budget. Requires the link to the adopted budget to remain on the district Web site until the third anniversary of the date the budget was adopted. Pages 89-96 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf Title: H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part III Source: www.legis.state.tx.us UT Adopted 06/2009 P-12 Provides greater flexibility in local determinations of how school LAND Trust Program funds are spent. Requires that School LAND Trust Program funds be focused on enhancing or improving student academic achievement and implementing a component of the school improvement plan focused on the school's identified critical academic needs, as explained in Section 53A-1a-108.5 and Section 53A-16-101.5(5). Provides that School LAND Trust monies may be spent on activities such as: (1) Credit recovery courses and programs (2) Study skills classes (3) College entrance exam preparation classes (4) Academic field trips (5) Classroom equipment and materials such as flashcards, math manipulatives, calculators, microscopes, maps, books or student planners (6) Teachers and teacher aides (7) Professional development directly tied to school academic goals (8) Computer labs, software, LCDs and smart boards (9) Books and textbooks. Permits schools serving students with disabilities to use funds as needed to directly influence and improve student performance according to the student Individual Education Plans (IEPs). Directs the School Children's Trust Section of the USOE to create and electronically post model plans for elementary and secondary schools. Adds R277-477-4, which requires the School Children's Trust Section of the Utah State Office of Education USOE to provide support to local boards of education, to the SCSB and to local charter trust land committees. Specifies types of support services that must be provided. Directs the School Children's Trust Section to monitor development of School LAND Trust plans and assist local community councils and charter school trust land committees with plan development as requested, and monitor expenditures and compliance with statutory requirements. Specifies types of activities that assistance/monitoring may include. Requires the School Children's Trust Section, under the direction of the Superintendent, to provide oversight and expertise regarding the School LAND Trust account and all related activities. Specifies types of activities that oversight may include. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090401/32447.htm Title: R277-477 Source: www.rules.utah.gov GA Vetoed 05/2009 P-12 Sections 3-5: Adds sunset date of June 30, 2011 to subsections (h) and (j) of Code Section 20-2-260, relating to capital outlay funds generally, and to Code Section 20-2-262 relating to low-wealth capital outlay grants to local school systems. Sections 6-7: Repeals Act approved May 6, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 288), Act approved April 9, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 148), and Act approved April 22, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 400), relating to the automatic repeal of provisions relating to advance funding, exceptional growth, and low-wealth capital outlay grants Bill: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb178.pdf Veto Number 11 (scroll toward bottom of page): http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_139486062_140372354,00.html Title: S.B. 178 Sections 3-7 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us KS Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Change of funding formula meant to take into account the large number of children in military families in some districts. Chapter 2009-60 http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/2002.pdf Title: H.B. 2002 Source: http://www.kslegislature.org/ NY Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Authorizes aid for computer software purchases to go toward any content-based instructional materials aligned with state standards and accessed or delivered through an Internet subscription. Provides such electronic materials may include video, audio, images, teacher guides and student access capabilities as defined in the commissioner's regulations. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00157&sh=t Title: A.B. 157 - Part A, Section 6 Source: assembly.state.ny.us WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Sections 1 and 2 express legislative intent to fulfill their obligation under Article IX of the State Constitution to establish a general and uniform system of public schools, define basic education and implement allocation formulas that address differences in school districts in order to promote equity and uniformity of educational opportunity. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2261--Section 1, Definitions Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Sections 101 through 110 establish new definitions of basic education, address instructional programs and basic education funding, including an allocation formula. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2261--Section 101-110, Funding Formula Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Revises the funding of elementary and secondary education and to increase the required minimum size of a school district. Excludes any federal stimulus funds received under the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 when determining a school's allowable general fund balance. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/HB1254ENR.pdf Title: H.B. 1254 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Revises the index factor in the state aid to general education formula, sets a maximum per student allocation for school districts with an excess general fund balance; requires the Legislature to estimate general fund revenues for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year; revises provisions regarding the distribution of funds to sparse school districts; appropriates funds to distribute to spare school districts. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB101ENR.pdf Title: S.B. 106 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Revises the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB80ENR.pdf Title: S.B. 80 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/ SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Allows resident students that attend school out of state to be counted in the resident school district's average daily membership for the purpose of distributing school and public lands funds. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB132SFV.pdf Title: S.B. 132 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us TX Adopted 02/2009 P-12 Establishes definitions and an equitable funding formula for local Communities In Schools (CIS) Programs for youth dropout prevention. Title: 19 TAC 2.89.EE.89.1501 -1503, .1505, .1507, .1509, .1511 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 01/2009 P-12 Postsec. Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for school and community college districts, pupil retention block grants, charter school block grants, pupil oral health assessments, local agency program improvement under the No Child Left Behind program, the High Priority Schools Grant Program, funding for regional occupational centers and programs, school transportation funds, and local education agency budgets. Title: A.B. 4A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Statute directs the state board to determine highly impacted schools based on the following criteria: (i) high student mobility rates within each school; (ii) the number and percentage of students at each school who apply for free school lunch; (iii) the number and percentage of ethnic minority students at each school; (iv) the number and percentage of limited English proficiency students at each school; and (v) the number and percentage of students at each school from a single parent family. Rule amendment provides increased oversight and procedural changes and additions for highly impacted schools. Title: R277-464 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Provides more specific language for schools/school districts to follow when administering the School LAND Trust Program funds. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-477.htm Title: R277-477 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Provides a formula to allocate funds appropriated by the 2008 Legislature for school districts and charter schools to provide English Language Learner Family Literacy Centers. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-715.htm Title: R277-715 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Adopted 10/2008 P-12 These emergency rules amend the existing rules related to the school foundation program.  The emergency rules provide additional definitions for terms used throughout the rules.  The emergency rules add a new section 8 which provides a process for a school district to apply to the department of education for a modification of a school's grade configuration.  The emergency rules amend the process for attendance taking by the schools and require that attendance be taken every period in middle schools, junior high schools and high schools.  The emergency rules provide regulations for the calculation of average daily membership for distance education students and require that school districts choose one of three methods of calculation of average daily membership for all part-time students.  The emergency rules provide for the adjustment of prior school year average daily membership if a new school opens, a district changes boundaries, a school's grades served are reconfigured or a district moves programs and students from one school to another.  The emergency rules require certain data from the school facilities commission and provide a method for the calculation of groundskeeper full time employee resources based on the lesser of actual site acreage or school facilities commission guidelines except for certain land acquired on or before July 1, 1997. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/ARULES/ER08-23.htm Title: Chapter 8 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/ARULES/ER08-23.htm CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provided funding for each class in which the class size is reduced to a ration of 20 or fewer pupils per certified teacher in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 3, inclusive. Extends the implementation of provisions that require the Controller to reduce funding for participating districts for failing to reduce a class size from the next apportionment or apportionments. Chapter 515 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1112_bill_20080928_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 1112 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Relates to school finance. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the average monthly enrollment of each elementary, high school and unified school district for the 2007-08 school year and the 2008-09 school year using the active enrollment of those districts as reported. Requires the Superintendent to company average monthly enrollment for each district calculated for those school years using a specified formula. Requires related reports by the Superintendent. Title: S.B. 146 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Governor's line-item veto overridden by both houses 09/2008 P-12 Amends the Library System Act. Increases the amount of grants from the state to public and school libraries. Provides that if moneys appropriated are not sufficient then the grants must be reduced, but they may not be reduced below certain levels. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4527lv.pdf Governor's message: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HB4527gms&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HB&LegID=35144&DocNum=4527&GAID=9&Session= Title: H.B. 4527 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Provides for the phase out of the Year-Round School Grant Program by reducing the grant amounts each fiscal year until a specified fiscal year. Prohibits the approval of new grants. Requires the funds for the grant program be augmented in the annual Budget Act in a specified amount and transferred to the Department of Education. Provides for the transfer of a specified amount of funds appropriated for the grant program to the Charter School Facility Grant Program to accomplish the reallocation of funding. Chapter 271. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0651-0700/sb_658_bill_20080924_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 658 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov NY Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Excludes increased fuel costs over the prior school year from the calculation of total spending increases for the purposes of a school district contingency budget when such increased costs meet certain criteria including the result obtained when a certain percentage in multiplied by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index with the result rounded to a certain number of decimal places or a fixed percentage. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S07025&sh=t Title: S.B. 7025 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must include students age 3 to 21 (rather than birth to 21) receiving special education services. Eliminates requirement that state board of education annually report on "children of non English background" receiving special education services. Eliminates provision authorizing the state board to provide matching grants to districts to support technology-related investments. Eliminates provision directing the state board to adopt rules for the administration of the School Technology Program. Authorizes student biometric information to be destroyed without notification to or the approval of a local records commission within 30 days after use of the information is discontinued due to student graduation, withdrawal, or a written request from the individual having legal custody of a student. Establishes circumstances under which a district may levy a tax or issue bonds for facilities alteration or reconstruction. Adds provision requiring that summer session costs be reimbursed based on the actual expenditures for providing these services. Deletes certain provisions related to clock hour requirements for teachers' continuing education units. Authorizes school student records to be released, transferred or disclosed to the state board or another state government agency or among state government agencies to evaluate or audit federal and state programs or perform research and planning, but only to the extent that the release, transfer, disclosure, or dissemination is consistent with the federal FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). Authorizes the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to develop additional campuses throughout the state, but specifies that any additional campus does not need to serve as a residential institution. Adds to the board of trustees of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy to include the superintendent of the district where each campus is located. Abolishes the board of trustees of the Illinois Summer School for the Arts on the effective date of this legislation. Transfers to the state board of education all of the board of trustees' powers, duties, assets, liabilities, employees, contracts, property, records, pending business, and unexpended appropriations. Repeals 105 ILCS 420, the Council on Vocational Education Act and 105 ILCS 423, the Occupational Skill Standards Act. Eliminates provision requiring the state board of education's annual report on vocational education to include recommendations on programs and policies to overcome sex bias and sex stereotyping in vocational education programming and an assessment of the state's progress in achieving such goals prepared by the state vocational education sex equity coordinator pursuant to the Federal Vocational Education Law. Requires a school enrolling a student to make a copy of the student's certified birth certificate and return the original to the person enrolling the child. Provides that once a school has received a certified copy of the child's birth certificate, the school need not request another such certified copy with respect to that child for any other year in which the child is enrolled in that school. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2482lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2482 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation PA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Postsec. Sets the school finance distribution formula based primarily on what it will take for students to meet the state's academic standards. The amount is based largely on the findings of the 2007 Costing-Out Study. Provides for a transferring pupil's disciplinary record to be transmitted to the transferring public or private school, upon request. Provides for school employee background checks, budgets, classroom placement of twins, bullying, scholastic records, educational support, early learning programs, virtual high schools, charter schools, school transportation, educational empowerment districts, community colleges, educational improvement business tax credits, public records, libraries and special education. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION  The 2008-09 education budget invests $86.4 million in Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts, a 15 percent increase from 2007-08, to enable 800 more children to participate in the commonwealth's hallmark, voluntary pre-kindergarten initiative and to respond to parents' requests for more full-day enrollment opportunities among some of the existing half-day programs.  CLASSROOMS FOR THE FUTURE  The budget includes $45 million for technology and $15 million for professional development to continue the multi-year rollout of Classrooms for the Future. SCIENCE: IT'S ELEMENTARY  The effort to promote science learning in elementary schools will receive $14.5 million – a 7.4 percent increase – in 2008-09, enabling thousand of more students to benefit from this hands-on learning experience and be ready for higher-order science classes in middle and high school. DUAL ENROLLMENT Pennsylvania's Dual Enrollment program is designed to serve a wide-range of students, but particularly those who attend college at disproportionately low rates. The budget continues the $10 million in annual funding for Dual Enrollment, which allows high school students to take college courses through community colleges and four-year colleges and universities. By encouraging the participation of students who might otherwise be unlikely to attend college, the Dual Enrollment program helps ensure all students have the opportunity to earn a post-secondary degree and become self-sufficient, productive taxpayers. HIGHER EDUCATION  The budget continues to invest in the commonwealth's higher education institutions to offer affordable and accessible post-secondary education in Pennsylvania. State funding for student tuition grants through PHEAA will increase by $21.2 million, or 5.5 percent. The state's community colleges will receive a 3 percent operating increase. An additional $14.5 million will be provided to the State System of Higher Education to keep down tuition increases.    http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2007&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1067&pn=4199 Title: H.B. 1067 Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us AK Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Relates to elementary and pre-elementary schools; relates to counting pre-elementary students in a school's average daily membership in a public school for federal funding purposes. Chapter 117 http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/25/Bills/HB0332A.PDF Title: H.B. 332 Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Prohibits a joint technological education district (JTED) from spending Class B bond proceeds to construct or renovate a facility located on the campus of a school in a school district that participates in the JTED unless the facility is only used to provide career and technical education and is available to all pupils who live in the district; provides for calculating funding of a school districts building renewal distribution and new construction when a JTED leases a building from a school district. Title: H.B. 2234 Source: http://www.azleg.gov AZ Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Postsec. Increases base level (per-pupil funding) for all public schools by two percent from $3,226.88 to $3,291.42 for FY2008-09; increased additional assistance formula amount for cherter schools in FY2008-09 by two percent to $1,474.16 for K-8 grades and $1,718.10 for grades 9-12; increases the transportation support level per route mile formula amount by two percent for FY2008-09; suspends rapid decline funding for school districts in FY2008-09; specifies the K-12 Qualified Tax Rate for tax year 2007-08 and correspondingly FY2008-09 adjusted for truth in taxation and business property tax changes, is $1.4622 for elementary and union school districts and $2.9244 for unified school districts. Bill also discusses joint technological education districts and technology assisted instruction, school facilities and new school construction, and utilities cost funding. Chapter 287 http://www.azleg.gov.legtext/48leg/24/bills/hb2211o.asp Title: H.B. 2211 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Relates to school funding, funded pupil count, on- line pupil enrollment, preschool, supplemental and full day kindergarten, charter schools, special education, child nutrition programs, at risk pupils, education within a day treatment center, residential child care facility, hospital, or other licensed health care facility, declining enrollment study, school facility construction, alternative teacher compensation, and a districts authority to levy and collect taxes pursuant to an election. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/AB9BA3666B8E5F95872573D40054A973?open&file=1388_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1388 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/ KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Provides that a student enrolled in a district and attending both a non-virtual school and a virtual school must be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest one-tenth) that the student's attendance at the non-virtual school bears to full-time attendance. Provides that a student enrolled in a district and attending special education and related services and also attending a virtual school must be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest one-tenth) that the student's attendance at the non-virtual school bears to full-time attendance. Repeals and replaces definition of virtual school. Repeals and replaces K.S.A. 72-6455 regarding each district's high density at-risk pupil weighting. Creates new section for districts with enrollments of at least 40% but less than 50% at-risk students. Provides that each eligible district's medium density at-risk pupil weighting must be determined by the state board by multiplying the number of at-risk pupils by .06. Provides that if a school district becomes ineligible for medium density at-risk pupil weighting because enrollment of at-risk pupils in the district falls below the minimum threshold, the medium density at-risk pupil weighting of the district must be the greater of: (1) The medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the current school year; (2) the medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the prior school year; or (3) the average of the medium density at-risk pupil weighting in the current school year and the preceding two school years. Provides that the medium density at-risk pupil weighting provisions expire on June 30, 2011. Establishes the special education funding task force, and requires the first meeting of the task force to be held on or before August 1, 2008. Directs the special education funding task force to: (1) Study and make recommendations for changes in the existing formula for funding of special education and related services including medicaid replacement state aid (2) Conduct hearings and receive and consider suggestions from teachers, parents, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies and the general public concerning funding for special education and related services (3) Make and submit reports to the legislature on the work of the task force concerning recommendations of the task force. Provides that such reports must also include recommendations for legislative changes and must be submitted to the legislature before the start of each year's legislative session. Provides that the task force shall cease to exist on June 30, 2011. Establishes new section regarding medicaid replacement state aid. Directs the state board to designate a portion of the special education services state aid appropriation as medicaid replacement state aid. Provides that the amount so designated may not exceed $9,000,000 in any school year. Provides that each school district is entitled to medicaid replacement state aid. Provides a formula for calculating each district's medicaid replacement state aid. Repeals and replaces K.S.A. 72-6445a regarding state financial aid for any district formed by consolidation http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/531.pdf Title: S.B. 531 Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Establishes the virtual school act. Authorizes districts to operate virtual schools. Provides for requirements for virtual schools. Requires districts to provide adequate training to teachers who teach in virtual schools. Requires districts to annually submit a report to the state board on training programs the district provided to virtual school teachers. Provides for counting of students attending a virtual school, and for counting a student attending a non-virtual school and a virtual school. Provides for funds for virtual schools. Provides that if a student is enrolled in at least one Advanced Placement course provided by a virtual school, the school district offering the virtual school must be paid 8% of the amount of base state aid per pupil for such student as additional virtual school state aid. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/669.pdf Title: S.B. 669 Source: www.kslegislature.org OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Relates to the School Funding Formula Task Force; extends the task force to November 30, 2008; continues service of members; authorizes replacement of members by appointing authorities; modifies deadline for submission of report. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/SB/SB1881_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 1881 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us AZ Vetoed 04/2008 P-12 Concerns property tax valuation for purposes of the State Equalization Assistance property tax for a joint technological education district governing board; deletes certain references to the computation of State and county aid for equalization assistance for education for a school district. Title: H.B. 2220 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ ID Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Amends existing law relating to public school funding; revises the basis for calculating pupil tuition equivalency allowances; deletes an allowable cost on which the transportation support program is based, to increase the state's share of reimbursable transportation costs of the transportation support program; revises a criterion to qualify for a hardship bus run; removes the cap on increases in public charter school support units. Chapter 401 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/H0532.html Title: H.B. 607 Source: http://www3.idaho.gov NE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 From the fiscal note: Basic Funding: The bill changes the computation of the needs component of the state aid formula beginning in 2008-09. Instead of using cost groups as the primary basis to calculate need, the bill establishes comparison groups for each school district to determine the amount of basic funding. The comparison group for a school district is the next five larger districts and the next five smaller districts in size based upon the number of formula students. Basic funding is determined by first subtracting allowances to determine adjusted general fund operating expenditures. Then, for schools with less than 900 formula students, the basic funding for the district becomes the average of the adjusted general fund operating expenditures of the comparison group of school districts, omitting the high and low districts from the calculation. Basic funding for schools with 900 or more formula students will be based on average adjusted general fund operating expenditures per student for the comparison group, excluding the high and low districts. The change from using cost groups to comparison groups for purposes of calculating basic funding will result in an estimated $16 million decrease in the needs calculation in 2008-09 due to the exclusion of the high and low spending school districts in the comparison groups. The change in needs for any school district depends upon the relative spending of the district to the spending of other school districts in a comparison group. The calculated amount of needs for the basic funding component of the formula is about $2.1 billion. Formula Students: The calculation of formula students is changed to reduce the number of formula students by .5 for each student enrolled in less than full-day kindergarten. Formula students is also changed to include 60% of the qualified early childhood education fall membership. The formula currently weights early childhood educations students at .06. The changes will alter the number of students used in the formula to calculate state aid. Districts not offering full-day kindergarten will have a lower number of formula students. Changes in formula students shift need between school districts. General Fund Operating Expenditures: The definition of general fund operating expenditures (GFOE) is changed to include expenditures for summer school. GFOE is also redefined to exclude receipts to the general fund to the extent the receipts are not included in formula resources from early childhood education tuition, summer school tuition, converted contracts, distance education courses, private foundations and other private sources, the textbook loan program, federal impact aid, and transfers from the general fund to a bond fund and transfers from other funds into the general fund. Beginning in 2010-11, GFOE will also exclude the proceeds of levy override elections. Any changes in GFOE as a result of the inclusion of summer school as an expenditure and the exclusion of the other items as expenditures changes total needs in the formula. The changes decrease formula needs by $34.1 million in 2008-09. Cost Growth Factor: The bill changes the cost growth factor which is used to increase general fund operating expenditures in the formula. The component in the cost growth factor for enrollment growth is eliminated as is the growth due to a board vote. The cost growth factor in the 2008-09 certification of state aid is 1.078. The bill changes the factor to 1.06, based upon the current allowable growth rate. The change in the factor reduces the amount of formula need by $37.9 million in 2008-09. Fiscal note: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/FN/LB988.pdf Full text: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB988.pdf Title: L.B. 988 Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Makes major changes to the funding formula by eliminating adjusted enrollment and other waiver provisions and focuses new calculations on student density factors. For more detail see fiscal note:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=2005298. Copy of bill: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4588%20enr%20SUB.htm Title: H.B. 4588 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us SC Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Supplements the school districts negatively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability; provides that a school district positively affected by the lack of revision of the 2007 final index of taxpaying ability shall direct the excess funds towards nonrecurring allowable expenditures. Act 364 http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html Title: S.B. 1075 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net AK Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Relates to school funding, the base student allocation, district cost factors and the adjustments for intensive services and average daily membership calculations; provides for special needs funding and the loss of enrollment due to a boundary change. Chapter 9 http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/docs/pdf/1stPrefiles.pdf Title: H.B. 273 Source: http://w3.legis.state.ak.us OR Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Allows the Department of Education to expend moneys from the School Fund for support of talented and gifted education; allows department to contract for creation and administration of regional talented and gifted centers; removes limit on percentage of amount of appropriated moneys that department may use for support of talented and gifted education; directs school districts to include information on anabolic steroids and performance enhancing substances in kindergarten through grade 12 curricula. http://www.leg.state.or.us/08ss1/measpdf/sb1000.dir/sb1066.en.pdf Title: S.B. 1066A Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/08ss1/measpdf/sb1000.dir/sb1066.en.pdf SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Revises the General Education State Aid Formula for purposes of increasing teachers' salaries; revises provisions related to payments of additional funds to consolidating school districts. http://legis.state.sd.us Title: S.B. 187 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; provides maximum tax levies for agricultural property, an owner-occupied single- family dwelling, nonagricultural acreage property, and all other property within the district. Slightly reduces (by approximately 4%) the school fund tax levees for agricultural, homestead and large nonagricultural acreage properties. http://legis.state.sd.us Title: H.B. 1120 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Allows any school district that qualifies for both the declining enrollment allowance and the growing enrollment payment in the same fiscal year to only benefit from the one that provides the most additional funding to the district; relates to average daily membership of resident and nonresident students who are in the care and custody of the Department of Social Services, the Unified Judicial System, the Department of Corrections or other state agencies. http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx Title: H.B. 1288 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us IA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth (4%) for purposes of the State School Foundation Program; provides for computation of state aid. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&menu=text&hbill=HF2140 Title: H.F. 2140 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us IL Signed into law 01/2008 P-12 Guarantees that school districts will receive at least as much special education funding in the 2007-08 school year and each year thereafter as they did in the 2006-07 school year. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4148lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4148 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Enacted 11/2007 P-12 Relates to funding for public and private elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and community colleges; relates to property assessments, agreements between county governments and electric generation facilities for payments in lieu of taxes, the Agriculture and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation, the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund, grants to county boards of education under an aging schools program, and State Lottery agents' and other public employees' wages. http://mlis.state.md.us/2007s1/bills/sb/sb0001t.pdf Title: H.B. 1A Source: Maryland Legislature MI Enacted 11/2007 P-12 Provides appropriations for School Aid; provides for public schools and school districts; relates to cost estimates. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2007-PA-0137.pdf Conference Committee Summary http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billanalysis/House/pdf/2007-HLA-4359-8.pdf Title: H.B. 4359 Source: Michigan Legislature OH Signed into law 10/2007 P-12 Prescribes the per pupil base cost formula amount; increases by 3% each year the hourly rate that is used to calculate the based funding supplement for academic intervention; eliminates the cost-of-doing-business factor from the formula. Addresses state share, parity aid, poverty-based assistance, special education funding, transportation funding, and transitional aid. Title: H.B. 119 -- School Funding Source: Digest of Enactments 2007 IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Provides that for state aid purposes, if during a school day, a district has provided at least one clock hour of instruction but must dismiss students from one or more school buildings due to a condition beyond the district's control, then the partial day of attendance may be counted as a full day of attendance. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1910lv.pdf Title: H.B. 1910 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NJ Adopted 08/2007 P-12 Proposes to amend rules concerning Financing Foundational and Demonstrably Needed Programs and Services in Abbott School Districts. Suspends the requirements that the school districts prepare and submit to the Department a school district report on instructional priorities. Eliminates the requirement that social workers and guidance counselors obtain the necessary training to become substance awareness coordinators. Clarifies what incremental costs may be included in the school district's justification and documentation of need when requesting additional funds to open a new school facility. NEW JERSEY 17888 http://www.state.nj.us/education/code/current/title6a/chap10.pdf Title: NJAC 6A:10-1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.7, and NJAC 6A:10-2.10 Source: New Jersey Rules/Regs PA Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Section 24 (Section 2502.13) increases aid to small schools; aid to low income districts; and at-risk funding. Also establishes aid for districts with high tax rates and low property values; additional funds for districts with high student growth; and establishes an inflation adjustment. Section 26 (Sections 2504.4, 2509.1, 2509.5 of the act) clarifies how districts receive funding for limited English proficiency students and special education. Section 27 (Section 2526.1 of the act) requires a budget stabilization plan progress report for 1st class districts (Philadelphia, Pittsburg). Section 30 (Section 2599.2) -- Pennsylvania Accountability Grants -- provides grants for world languages in the elementary grades, either as immersion or separate periods of instruction. If 2007-08 funding exceeds the amount from the 2006-07 school year, districts may use the additional funds for full-day kindergarten. For 2007-2008, the department is required to pay additional funding for low-performing schools -- and high achieving districts receive additional funds. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2007&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0842&pn=2347 Title: H.B. 842 -- Fiscal Assistance Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us ME Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Adjusts the school funding formula to require the unorganized territories to pay their full and fair share of educating students from the unorganized territories in kindergarten to grade 12; relates to tuition and percentages of the state average per public school student. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022944&LD=484&Type=1&SessionID=7 Title: H.B. 368 Source: Maine Legislature NV Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recalculate the basic support guarantee for Fiscal Year 2008-09 based upon a salary increase of 4.375 percent rather than 4 percent if the projected revenues from the local school support tax exceed a certain threshold. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB563_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 563 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ TN Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Increases the states funding level to schools. The state will now provide 75%, instead of 65%, of the cost of instructional positions to schools. This change in the law will produce an increase in state funding to schools of $285 million for the 2007/08 fiscal year. Modifies the formula to provide 100% funding for at-risk students in grades K-12. "At-risk student" means a student who is eligible for free or reduced price lunch pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1751-1769; modifies the formula to provide funding for English language learner students at a ratio of one to twenty (1:20) and one to two hundred (1:200) for teachers and translators respectively; http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0369.pdf Title: H.B. 2293 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us VT Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Amends provisions regarding joint contract school districts, genders and dates of birth of pupils, base contract amounts, K-12 tuition agreement terms, transportation assistance for technical education, salaries, school budgets, property tax revenue and rates, district spending per pupil, special education costs, district membership counts, distance learning, professional development programs, pregnant and teen parenting programs, district consolidation and budget deficits. Requires the department of education to develop a system for determining the school district membership count based on samplings conducted on at least one day in the autumn and one day in the spring, which shall be ready for implementation in the autumn of 2008.  Long-term membership is to be determined by averaging the counts of the four most recent sample periods.  In developing the system, the department shall consult with the Vermont superintendents association, the Vermont school boards association, and the Vermont association for school business officials.   On or before January 15, 2008, the department shall report to the house and senate committees on education regarding the system it has developed and request any necessary legislative amendments, including transitional language.  Requires the department of education to examine, analyze, and make recommendations concerning a process by which the state could develop a statewide, managed network offering shared, high-quality distance-learning opportunities to all Vermont schools through accredited, online course offerings from nationally recognized distance learning schools and through Vermont‑based distance learning courses.  The department is also to consider ways in which such a network could be developed through collaboration within and among supervisory unions. Requires the department to present its analysis and recommendations in the form of a report to the general assembly on or before January 1, 2008. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/acts/ACT066.HTM Title: S.B. 93 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/ CO Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Concerns aid for school districts in which pupils who are the dependents of military personnel enroll after October 1. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A8FCDA3FB23E52418725725D00593121?open&file=1232_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1232 Source: Colorado Legislature KS Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Amends the method for determining the nonproficient pupil weighting of each district. Amends procedures for a district to adopt a local option budget. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/68.pdf Title: S.B. 68 (Section 1-3) Source: www.kslegislature.org IN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College A student who participates in:         (1) a postsecondary enrollment program under IC 21-43-4 is considered a student enrolled in the school corporation where the student has legal settlement for the purposes of computing ADM;         (2) a high school fast track to college program under IC 21-43-6 shall be counted in the ADM of the school corporation where the student has legal settlement if the student would be counted in the ADM of the school corporation had the student enrolled in the school corporation; or         (3) a high school fast track to college program under IC 21-43-7 shall be counted in the ADM of the school corporation where the student has legal settlement if the student would be counted in the ADM of the school corporation had the student enrolled in the school corporation. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/SE/SE0526.1.html Title: S.B. 526 (omnibus) - IC 20-43-4-8 Source: www.in.gov/legislative ND Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Adds a new section that sets school district size weighting factors -- weighted student units. Another new section establishes minimum and maximum allowable increases for base rate funding. Also revises student unit funding levels for high schools and elementary schools that become unaccredited. Revises how funding is allocated to districts. Revises allocation of funding to students with special needs, including a provision for students choosing to attend out of district: Requires the superintendent of public instruction to reimburse the student's school district of residence for all excess costs (for students who require the greatest school district expenditures) in order to provide them with special education and related services. The excess costs of providing special education and related services to these students are the responsibility of the state and the superintendent of public instruction shall reimburse the school districts for any excess costs (to qualify, costs must exceed four and one-half times the state average cost of education per student. Amends school construction loan provisions. Title: S.B. 2200 (finance provisions) Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Declares that this act is intended to make provision for some significant steps towards a new basic education funding system and establishes a technical work group to address the details and next steps beyond the 2007-2009 biennium that will be necessary to implement a new comprehensive K-12 finance formula or formulas that will provide Washington schools with stable and adequate funding as the expectations for the K-12 system continue to evolve. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5627-S2.PL.pdf Title: S.B. 5627 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov KS Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Allows for an additional student count in February to determine if a school district has experienced an increased student enrollment due to an influx of children whose parents are employed by the military. Provides that a district that demonstrates a student population increase of 25 students or 1% is eligible to receive additional state funds. Bill text: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/2159.pdf Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2008/2159.pdf Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2008/SN2159.pdf Title: H.B. 2159 Source: www.kslegislature.org NY Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Senate Bill 2107, and its companion bill SB 2103, made several major changes to the state's educational funding formula - these changes included the following: --The creation of a new Foundation Aid program which takes the place of 30 different categorical aid programs. --Requires districts that receive a state aid increase of greater than 10%, or $15 million, or a district that receives a supplemental educational improvement plan grant and has at least one school must enter into a "Contract for Excellence" with the state. These contracts contain agreements that school officials are using the funding to produce measurable results. --Increased funding for both full-day kindergarten and universal prekindergarten programs. --Additional funding to districts who are impacted by the loss of students to charter schools. --Funding increases for building aid, transportation, special education, math & sciences initiatives, computer hardware and software, bilingual programs and textbooks. --The creation of a "High Tax Aid" program that provides funding to districts with high school operating tax rates. Text of S.B. 2103: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02103&sh=t Text of S.B. 2107: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2107 Title: S.B. 2103 and S.B. 2107 -- Funding Components Source: assembly.state.ny.us AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Act to assist school districts with the transition between levels of categorical funding for the national school lunch students by providing a method of transitional funding during a three-year period. The Department of Education is to establish rules to implement the transitional funding provided in this section. The rules shall include a method of transitional funding for a school district that both falls below and exceeds a funding level identified in this section. No school district shall be entitled to receive more or less funding as a result of the transitional process than the school district is otherwise entitled to receive under subdivision of this section based on the school district's national school lunch student population as a percent of the district's entire student population. (Act No. 811) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB1720.pdf Title: H.B. 1726 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us ID Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Increases state education funding to school districts, partially in order to create greater funding equity between school districts in the state. The appropriation provides $20.13 million in new line item funding for classroom supplies, textbooks and remedial education. For districts and public charter schools that currently expend discretionary funds for these items, which were not previously funded by the state, those moneys may now be freed up for other uses. Session Law Chapter 352 http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1236.html Title: S.B. 1236 (Section 8) Source: www3.state.id.us AR Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends the public school funding act of 2003; ensures that every public school district in the state receives the full amount of foundation funding; relates to daily membership of students. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB1632.pdf Title: H.B. 1632 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Provides enhanced educational funding by supplementing the amount of per student foundation funding distributed to school districts for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years. Changes funding to meet a mandated funding increase set by the courts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB1633.pdf Title: H.B. 1633 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and clarifies what new property values to include for the purposes of the Growth County School Facilities Act; increases state aid to counties by reducing the percentage used to calculate levies for general current expense purposes subject to exception; provides for a refundable property tax credit for real property taxes paid in excess of a certain percent of income; requires that a library funding obligation created by special act be paid from certain funds; limits a library funding obligation; allows, under certain conditions, a transfer of the library funding obligation so that the obligation is paid from excess levy revenues; voids the library funding obligation under certain conditions; and provides extraordinary sustained increased enrollment impact supplement. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB541%20SUB2%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 541 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ SD Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Revises the state aid to education formula and sets funding amounts to reimburse districts that choose to consolidate. http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB157CNF.pdf Title: S.B. 157 Source: http://www.legis.state.sd.us SD Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Revises provisions relating to the distribution of state aid funds to sparse school districts.Defines sparse school districts as having an adjusted average daily membership of less than 100 or greater than 275. Amends formula for calculating sparsity aid. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/SB32enr.pdf Title: S.B. 32 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us NE Signed into law 01/2007 P-12 Relates to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act. Changes provisions relating to cost growth factor. http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB21.pdf Title: L.B. 21 Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/ NJ Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Directs the Commissioner of Education to contract with an independent entity to conduct an evaluation of the Department Of Education and its oversight capacity; relates to public school funding reform. Title: S.J.R. 1 Source: New Jersey Legislature UT Adopted 11/2006 P-12 Allows exceptions to the minimum number of instructional hours and schools days per year for individual students and schools; requires Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to ensure that accurate records of daily student attendance and school entrance and completion are maintained in each school, as well student disability status; requires each school to contract with an independent auditor to review attendance/completion records; provides new eligibility standards for funding students, including electronic high school students; provides new guidelines for indicating the high school completion or exit status of each student who leaves the state's public education system; provides new guidelines for the student identification and tracking system. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bull_pdf/2006/b20061001.pdf (see pg. 15) Title: R277-419 Source: http://www.rules.utah.gov/main/ CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Postsec. Revises minimum state educational funding procedure for school districts and community college districts. Enacts the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006, which would authorize school districts and other local educational agencies to apply to receive funding to allocate to elementary and secondary schools and charter schools that are ranked in certain deciles on the Academic Performance Index. Appropriates funds for the program for the 2007-08 fiscal year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1133_bill_20060901_enrolled.pdf Title: S.B. 1133 Source: California Legislature WA Adopted 08/2006 P-12 Amends the formula for and distribution of state moneys for state incentive grants for increased enrollment in vocational skills centers programs. Implements language in the 2006 budget directing the Office to develop criteria to award incentive grants to encourage school districts to increase enrollment in vocational skills centers. http://www1.leg.wa.gov/documents/wsr/2006/17/06-17-141.htm Title: WAC 392-121-465 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Allows cooperative high schools to receive some of the same supplementary state aid that new districts receive; relates to multiple agreements. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4365lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4365 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Concerns joint technology education districts; provides that if a pupil is enrolled in both a charter school and a joint technological education district and resides in a school district participating in the joint technological district, the sum of the average daily membership for that pupil shall not exceed a specified percentage; provides for apportionment; requires testing to demonstrate competency; provides that such district shall not levy a property tax in excess of a specified amount. Title: H.B. 2700 Source: Arizona Legislature PA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Provides for taxation by school districts, the state funds formula, tax relief in first class cities, school district choice, voter participation and other school district options. Makes an appropriation. Prohibits prior authorized taxation. Provides for installment payment of taxes. Restricts the power of certain school districts to levy, assess and collect taxes. Title: H.B. 39A Source: Pennsylvania Legislature CO Rejected by voters 06/2006 P-12 Proposes a constitutional amendment to require that in each state fiscal year a school district spend at least 65% of its operational expenditures on classroom instruction. Creates the State Public School Expenditures Accountability Act; requires school districts to adopt an annual budget report, in a standard format, for public inspection, and to spend a percentage of operational budgets on direct classroom expenditures; concerns capital construction, charter school transfers, mill levies, local bonds and bond redemption funds; allows a district to hold an election to determine voter preference to exempt the district from requirements. http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/0506initrefr.nsf/89fb842d0401c52087256cbc00650696/d35caec1adcb56ae8725713e0058cb10/$FILE/ATTSVQLD/Amendment%2039.pdf H.B. 1283 http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/627AF3E860CE5FE1872570DE007CBF64?Open&file=1283_rer.pdf Title: Amendment 39 (H.B. 1283) Source: CO Secretary of State KS Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Directs the state board to determine the high density at-risk pupil weighting of each school district based on enrollment density and high-density of at-risk pupils. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/2809.pdf Title: H.B. 2809 Source: www.kslegislature.org IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Beginning January 15, 2007, requires the department to submit an annual report to the legislature that includes the ways districts in the previous school year used modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and dropout prevention; identifies, by grade level, age, and district size, the students in the dropout and dropout prevention programs for which the department approves a request; describes school district progress toward increasing student achievement and attendance for the students in the programs; and describes how the school districts are using the revenues from the modified allowable growth to improve student achievement among minority subgroups. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272 Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 28 Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us OK Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Amends calculations for state aid for charter schools. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06bills/SB/SB1493_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 1493 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us TX Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Relates to public school finance, property tax relief, public school accountability and programs. Requires school districts to reduce their M&O tax rates in 2006 to 88.67 percent of their 2005 M&O tax rate. School districts would receive "hold harmless" funding of the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain state and local revenue per weighted student equal to either the amount the district would have been entitled for the 2006-07 school year under current law or 2005-2006 revenue per weighted student, including state aid received for property value decline and "recapture" arrangements under Chapter 42. The bill appropriates $2.39 billion to school districts for fiscal 2007 in "hold harmless" funds. For school districts subject to "recapture" of local property tax revenue under Education Code, ch. 41, M&O tax revenue on tax rates greater than $1.33 per $100 of valuation would not be subject to recapture. School districts that qualify for the "guaranteed yield" would receive the current allotment of $27.14 per weighted student for every penny of tax effort above their new compressed rate (up to $1.50). http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/793/billtext/pdf/HB00001F.PDF Bill Analysis http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/hrofr/pdf/ba793/HB0001.PDF Title: H.B. 1C Source: Texas Legislature VT Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Directs the commissioner of education to work with education administrators to study the actual costs of providing services to elementary and secondary pupils and, on or before January 30, 2007, to make a recommendation to the general assembly regarding weighting of these pupils. Directs the commissioner of education to study the effect of the provisions of 32 V.S.A. § 5401(12) and (13), relating to excess spending in school districts and district spending adjustment, on various types of school districts such as those that provide for the education of a significant portion or all of their students through paying tuition and those that have a small number of students.  As part of the study, requires the commissioner to consider the effect of removing the portion of secondary technical education tuition which is in excess of the district's equalized per pupil spending from the calculation of excess spending, and the effect of removing interest payments made on funds borrowed in anticipation of capital construction aid from the calculation of district spending adjustment.  Requires the commissioner to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007. Directs the commissioner of education to study alternatives for computing education spending, including alternative methods for counting the average daily membership and to report the results of the study to the general assembly by January 30, 2007. Directs the commissioner of education to work with Vermont educators and the state board to study the quality of Vermont public schools and independent schools which receive public funds and to study and analyze methods to reduce costs and to deliver the results of the analysis and recommendations for legislative action to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007. Directs the commissioner of education to report to the senate and house committees on education by January 30, 2007 regarding recommendations, if any, for amendments to Title 16 provisions addressing school district auditing requirements, including the frequency and scope.  In developing the recommendations, requires the commissioner to confer with the state auditor of accounts and with representatives of the Vermont association of school business officials, the Vermont superintendents association, and the Vermont school boards association. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM Title: H.B. 867 - Section 20 (a) through (f) Source: www.leg.state.vt.us KS Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Defines "nonproficient pupil" as a student who is not eligible for free lunches and who has scored less than proficient on the state math or reading assessment during school year 2004-2005 and who is enrolled in a district which maintains an approved proficiency assistance plan. Creates a ''nonproficient pupil weighting'' as an addend component assigned to enrollment of districts on the basis of enrollment of nonproficient pupils. Requires that assistance or programs provided to nonproficient pupils be paid from the at-risk education fund. Requires every local board to annually submit to the state board a report on the at-risk program or assistance provided by the district. Requires such report to include information specifying the number of at-risk pupils and nonproficient pupils served or provided assistance, the type of service provided, the research upon which the district relied in determining that a need for service or assistance existed, the results of providing such service or assistance and any other information required by the state board. Specifies that districts must report such information as specified by the state board in order to achieve uniform reporting of the number of at-risk pupils and nonproficient pupils provided service or assistance by school districts in at-risk programs. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf Title: S.B. 549 - Section 3, 9, 15 Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Repealed by H.B. 2809 05/2006 P-12 Creates a new weighting called the "high density at-risk weighting" for districts with high percentages of students who receive free meals. Those districts with free meal percentages between 40.0% and 49.9% are to receive an additional weighting of 0.04% in the 2006-2007 school year. Districts with 50% or more free meals are to receive an additional weighting of 0.08% in the 2006-2007 school year. Districts with a density of 212.1 students per square mile and a free lunch rate of 35.1% and above will receive an additional weighting of 0.8% during school year 2007-2008. All weightings increase each year between 2006-2007 and 2008-2009. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf 2006 H.B. 2809: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/2809.pdf Title: S.B. 549 - Section 5 Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Authorizes districts to spend funds received from the bilingual weighting to pay the cost of providing at-risk and preschool-aged at-risk education programs and services. Authorizes districts to spend funds received from the preschool-aged at-risk weighting to pay the cost of providing at-risk, bilingual and vocational education programs and services. Requires every local board to annually submit to the state board a report on the preschool-aged at-risk program or assistance provided by the district. Requires this report to include information specifying the number of students who were served or provided assistance, the type of service provided, the research upon which the district relied in determining that a need for service or assistance existed, the results of providing such service or assistance and any other information required by the state board. Requires every local board to submit to the state board a report on the bilingual education program and assistance provided by the district. Requires this report to include information specifying the number of pupils who were served or provided assistance, the type of service provided, the research upon which the district relied in determining that a need for service or assistance existed, the results of providing such service or assistance and any other information required by the state board. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf Title: S.B. 549 - Section 13, 16, 27 Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Authorizes a district offering both half-day and full-day kindergarten to impose a fee for enrollment in full-day kindergarten, to cover that portion of the cost of providing full-day kindergarten not paid by the state. Clarifies that this does not require districts to offer or students to attend full-day kindergarten Authorizes a district to expend amounts received from the at-risk pupil weighting to pay for the cost of providing full-day kindergarten to any student attending full-day kindergarten whether or not such pupil is an at-risk pupil. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf Title: S.B. 549 - Section 6, 14 Source: www.kslegislature.org MO Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Pertains to aspects of calculation of state aid. Addresses changes in calculating a district's average daily attendance and local effort component. http://www.senate.mo.gov/06info/pdf-bill/tat/SB894.pdf Title: S.B. 894 Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov CO Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Concerns the financing of public schools; increases the statewide base per pupil funding to account for a higher inflation rate; provides that if a school district's expenditures for instructional supplies and materials exceeds the amount required to be budgeted for the budget year, allows the district to subtract an amount equal to the amount of the excess expenditures from the amount required to be budgeted for instructional supplies and materials for the subsequent budget year. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E2B24623C224397987257147007DC269?Open&file=1375_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1375 Source: Colorado Legislature MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Revises certain components of the State Adequate Education Program formula; revises the formula for computing the average daily attendance of students and the determination of base student cost under the formula by providing for the selection of school districts for the instructional cost component; provides that any fees received in lieu of taxes shall be including in the amount of required local contribution to the support of the program; relates to the sufficient funding under the program. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2604SG.htm Title: S.B. 2604 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/ UT Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Creates a cap on the number of charter schools that the State Charter School Board may authorize to begin operations in the 2007-08 school year; modifies provisions governing the inclusion of foreign exchange students for the purpose of apportioning state monies; establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,417; establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2006-07 of $2,032,219,545; authorizes the State Board of Education to use nonlapsing balances to restore special education funding; makes one-time appropriations for fiscal year 2006-07 for: pupil transportation; library books and supplies; the Enrollment Growth Program; charter schools; classroom supplies; and a charter school study. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/sbillenr/sb0005.pdf Title: S.B. 5 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Extends the repeal date on the provisions of the state Adequate Education Program which provide for additional funding in high growth school districts. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0563SG.htm Title: H.B. 563 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us WY Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Relates to school finance; implements 2005 recalibration modifications to the state education resource block grant model; clarifies duties of the secretary of state, state superintendent, Department of Education, school districts and the School Facilities Commission; specifies model recalibration parameters; eliminates superseded, superfluous and executed statutes; provides for a summer school grant program; provides for a report on bureau of Indian affairs schools and litigation expenses. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2006/Enroll/HB0139.pdf Bill sumnmary: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2006/Summaries/HB0139.htm Title: H.B. 139 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Increases the required school term from 175 to 180 full instructional days for use in the computation of Foundation Program allowances to local boards of education, beginning with the 2006-07 school year. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb333.htm Title: H.B. 333 Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ WA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 The temporary increase in the levy base authorized by the 2004 Legislature for calendar years 2005 through 2007 is continued for 2008 and thereafter. The temporary increase in the levy base was to account for the difference between the state funds that school districts could have received had Initiatives 728 and 732 been implemented as originally passed by the voters and the lower amounts they actually received as a result of amendments made to both initiatives in 2003. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/2812-S.SL.pdf Fiscal note: http://www.ofm.wa.gov/fns/legsearch.asp?BillNumber=2812&SessionNumber=59 Title: H.B. 2812 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/ SD Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Adds a new section. A student is enrolled if: (1) The student is less than twenty-one years of age on the first day of July or the student is twenty-one years of age or older and is admitted to the school district pursuant to § 13-28-8; and (2) The student has not completed an approved program or graduated from high school; and (3) The student's parent or guardian resides within the school district, or in the case of an emancipated minor or an adult admitted to the district pursuant to § 13-28-8, the student resides within the district or the student has been properly assigned to the district or has been approved to attend school in the district under the terms of the enrollment options program established in § 13-28-40; and (4) The student is not simultaneously enrolled in any other school district and has not been excused from school attendance under the terms of § 13-27-1.1 or § 13-27-2. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/HB1079enr.pdf http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/HB1176enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1079, H.B. 1176 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us NH Signed into law 02/2006 P-12 Repeals the education property tax effective March 31, 2005; distributes state education assistance in the form of state education grants, which are determined on a municipality-by-municipality basis under a formula that calculates a municipality's need for assistance based on a broad range of factors, including fiscal capacity, resource challenges, performance, and student population, with the state education grants being adjusted in future years by the consumer price index. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2006/HB0100.html Title: H.B. 100 Source: Lexis/nexis, StateNet ND Issued 01/2006 P-12 Executive Order 2006-01 Creates the Commission on Education Improvement to examine the current system of delivering and financing elementary and secondary public education. Title: Executive Order 13 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNew AL to governor 07/2005 P-12 From the fiscal note: Increases the obligations of the Education Trust Fund for funding the calculated cost of the K-12 Foundation Program due to the expected increase in pupils in average daily membership (ADM) calculated using the first 20 school days following Labor Day compared to the currently used first 40 days of school. Based upon the first 20 school days ADM following Labor Day for the school year 2004-05, increases the calculated cost of the Foundation Program by an estimated $16.1 million for fiscal year 2005-06 and by similar amounts each fiscal year thereafter. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/Action%20Item.htm Title: S.B. 48 Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us KS Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Makes changes to the School District Finance and Quality Performance Act, other school funding legislation, and enact policies relating to the state department, the Courts, and the Legislature. The bill provides for increases in Base State Aid Per Pupil (BSAPP), reimposes correlation weighting, and establishes a Local Activities Budget of 2 percent of the school district general fund budget. The bill appropriates funding totaling $119,000,000 in FY 2006 and $20,000,000 in FY 2007 for various state aid programs. The bill funds the Skills for Success Program in FY 2007, and makes other policy changes, including, for example: School District Budget Deadline – For the 2005-06 school year only, the school district budget deadline for filing the budget with county clerks would be delayed from August 25 to September 7. For the 2005-06 school year only, the cap on the school district contingency fund would be increased from 4 percent to 6 percent of the school district's general fund budget. Requires that at least 65 percent of the moneys appropriated, distributed, or otherwise provided by the state to school districts would be expended in the classroom or used for instructional purposes as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics. School District Administrative Reorganization Plan – Requires the state board to design an administrative reorganization plan for all school districts. Provides that no money from a school district's general fund can be spent for attorney fees or other costs in support of litigation against the State of Kansas or any state officer, official, agent, or agency. No money from a school district's general fund can be used by a district for lobbying. Computer Reporting System – Adds a provision that the Kansas Department of Education is to have the new computer reporting system required by 2005 HB 2247 in use by December 31, 2005. Teacher Bonuses – Allows the preschool at-risk, atrisk, bilingual, and vocational education funds to carry forward balances or be used for teacher bonuses when the teachers' efforts resulted in achievement of mastery of basic reading skills based on State Board guidelines (preschool at-risk and at-risk funds); in achievement of English for ESL students. http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2005special/SN0003.pdf Title: S.B. 3 Source: http://www.kslegislature.org OR Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Requires the Department of State Lands to transfer the balance of the Distributable Income Account of the Common School Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction semiannually or more frequently if the State Land Board so orders, and requires the the superintendent to distribute to each school district within a county a share of the county¢s apportionment that is based on the district¢s average daily membership that resides within the county. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/hb3100.dir/hb3183.en.pdf Title: H.B. 3183 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us AK Passed 06/2005 P-12 Establishes a seven-member task force on school district cost factors and foundation formula to evaluate proposals that are based on available facts and conclusions pertaining to school district cost differentials. Requires the task force to provide a written report with recommendations to the House of Representatives and the Senate by January 20, 2006. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HR0010Z&session=24 Title: H.R. 10 Source: www.legis.state.ak.us FL Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, if the actual student membership in the October survey exceeds the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation, the maximum student membership enrollment used in determining the October class size averages shall be the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation. States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, a district that fully achieves the required class size averages when compared to the February 2003 baseline student membership survey is eligible for a reversal of the prior year class size reduction operating categorical transfer that resulted from its inability to achieve the required class size averages as required. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=16687&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1678&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0 Title: S.B. 1678 Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov VT Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Authorizes the voters to eliminate the office of auditor and to employ instead a public accountant annually to audit the financial statements of the union school district. Adds tuition payments for technical education to the list of exclusions for calculating net cost per pupil. Deletes "adjusted education payment for each equalized pupil statewide" and replaces it with "statewide education spending." In fiscal year 2007, union and unified school districts are to not to receive funds under 16 V.S.A. § 4011(c) and must divide the amount that would otherwise be received under that section in the proportion which the union district's equalized pupil count from the associated municipality bears to the total number of the union district's equalized pupil count for that year.  http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT054.HTM Title: S.B. 159 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us NE Signed by Governor 06/2005 P-12 Changes provisions relating to early childhood education programs as prescribed; to define and redefine terms; to provide a weighting factor and a calculation; to change provisions relating to applicable allowable growth rates; to change provisions relating to a grant program; to harmonize provisions; and to repeal the original sections. Defines "qualified early childhood education average daily membership." Defines the weighting factor for early childhood education programs as six-tenths. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/pdf/FINAL_LB577_1.pdf Title: L.B. 577 Source: StateNet CO Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Makes an accomodation for counting preschoolers and 3- and 4-year olds with disabilities enrolled (for state funding purposes) by letting schools count them on November 1 or the school date closest to November 1, instead of October 1. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E5270E41C6FE350A87256F4F00049514?Open&file=032_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 32 Source: www.leg.state.co.us MO Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Currently, the state's education formula is essentially an equalized tax-rate driven formula, meaning that the formula provides a certain amount of money per student, per penny of tax rate. This act seeks to transition the state away from this tax-rate driven philosophy to a formula that is primarily student-needs based. http://www.senate.mo.gov/05info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=10668 Title: S.B. 287 Source: StateNet CO Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College From the fiscal note: This bill specifies that moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account shall be appropriated or transferred in the following manner: • if the voters approve the ballot issue set forth in HJR05-1057 (submitted to the voters as Referendum "D"), the General Assembly may appropriate moneys from the General Fund Exempt Account to make payments on principal and interest on critical needs notes; • if the voters do not approve Referendum "D", or if the principal and interest on the notes issued is less than $55 million in FY 2005-06, $95 million in FY 2006-07, or $125 million in each subsequent state fiscal year; or if the General Assembly elects not to appropriate moneys to repay the principal and interest on notes issued, the moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account would be used in a manner consistent with Section 24-77-103.6(2) (as specified in HB05-1194); and • if there are any moneys in the General Fund Exempt Account after the above appropriations or transfers are made, then all moneys remaining in the account would be split equally for funding health care; preschool through 12th grade education; and for students attending universities and community colleges. Furthermore, the bill establishes the types of uses in the account that qualify as funding health care, funding for preschool through 12th grade education, and funding for students attending universities and community colleges. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/ABDC71225BB51B1287256FEE004F2346?Open&file=1350_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1350 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/ AZ Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Replaces reference to "reimbursement" with reference to "certificate of supplemental instruction" for student attending a school designated as an underperforming school or a school failing to meet academic standards. Eliminates option for parent to request reimbursement from the district; eliminates provision that school may apply to state board for grants to provide supplemental instruction. Extends eligibility for supplemental instruction to students who have failed to pass one or more portions of the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test in order to graduate from high school. Requires the state board to determine application guidelines and maximum value for each certificate of supplemental instruction. Requires the state board to annually conduct a market survey to determine the maximum value for each certificate of supplemental instruction. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1516 Title: S.B. 1516 (Section 2) Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College States that a student in a K-8 program who enrolls in courses offered by the joint technological education district is not to be included in the joint district's average daily attendance or average daily membership. Also states that a student in a K-6 program who is enrolled in vocational education courses is not to be funded in whole or in part with monies provided by a joint technological education district. Clarifies how districts that are part of a joint district may acceptably use joint technological education district monies towards career and technical education and vocational education courses. Establishes the task force on joint technological education districts. Mandates that the task force: 1. Evaluate and make specific recommendations concerning the state and local funding of joint technological education districts, including options for various funding schemes that are not currently provided by law. 2. Evaluate and make specific recommendations concerning governance issues of joint technological education districts. 3. Evaluate and make specific recommendations concerning governance issues between school districts and joint technological education districts for vocational education courses offered between school districts and joint technological education districts. 4. Evaluate and make specific recommendations concerning joint technological education districts that provide courses primarily at facilities located at centralized campuses owned and operated by the joint technological education district and concerning joint technological education districts that primarily provide satellite courses at facilities owned or operated by school districts. 5. Evaluate and make recommendations concerning which vocational education courses should be approved by the career and technical education division of the department of education. 6. Determine the appropriate funding level and funding mechanisms for students who are enrolled in high school courses that involve instructors, services and facilities furnished by a combination of a joint technological education district, a community college district and a school district. 7. Submit a report of its findings, recommendations and proposed legislation to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the governor on or before December 1, 2005. The task force shall provide a copy of the report to the secretary of state and the director of the Arizona state library, archives and public records. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2418 Title: H.B. 2418 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us WA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Revises the funding formula for the Learning Assistance Program from one based equally on assessment results and family need to one based solely on family need. Title: H.B. 1066 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov IN Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Districts are eligible for the academic honors diploma awards according to the number of students who successfully completed an academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the previous calendar year. Reduces the amount for which districts are eligible for each student. Adds that an amount received by a school corporation as an honors diploma award may be used only for:         (1) any:             (A) staff training;             (B) program development;             (C) equipment and supply expenditures; or             (D) other expenses;         directly related to the school corporation's academic honors diploma program; and         (2) the school corporation's program for high ability students. States that a governing body that does not comply with these provisions for a school year is not eligible to receive an award for the following school year. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 201) Source: www.in.gov GA Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 One section changes program weights for funding purposes. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb35.pdf Title: S.B. 35 - Funding Section Source: http://www.legis.state.ga.us CO Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Increases the statewide base funding amount for at-risk students. Amends definition of "at-risk pupils" to include the number of district students who are English language learners plus the greater of (1) the number of district students eligible for free lunch or (2) the number of students calculated in accordance with the formula: district percentage of students eligible for free lunch X district student enrollment. Increases the district at-risk factor from 11.2% to 12%. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB38088C4F083DE787256F8E00813440?Open&file=200_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 200 (Section 1-4) Source: www.leg.state.co.us CO Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Revises certain language related to funding full-day kindergarten for students in a school receiving an "unsatisfactory" rating in the state accountability system. In implementing such a full-day kindergarten program, allows a local board to contract with any other public or private entity, including a child care center or a head start agency, as defined in statute. Provides that student in such a full-day kindergarten program must be counted as a full-day student. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB38088C4F083DE787256F8E00813440?Open&file=200_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 200 (Section 5-7) Source: www.leg.state.co.us WA Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 HB 1066 changes the school district distribution of Learning Assistance Program (LAP) funds from a distribution based 50% on assessment of students and 50% on one or more family income factors measure economic need, to a distribution based 100% on one or more family income factors measuring economic needs. The bill does not detail the specific formula change, exact measure(s) of economic need to use for allocation, or the weights to apply one or more measures of economic need. From fiscal note: This legislation is a request of Governor Locke, necessary to implement his LAP budget proposal. In his budget proposal Governor Locke assumed one the following formulas as appropriate for calculating the LAP distribution. 1. For district where the percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch is 40 percent or less: The district's full-time equivalent enrollment in grades K-11 for the prior school year multiplied by the district's percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch and then multiplied by $163.61.* 2. For district where the percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch exceeds 40 percent: The district's full-time equivalent enrollment in grades K-11 for the prior school year multiplied by the district's percentage of October headcount enrollment in grades K-12 eligible for free or reduced price lunch times 1.80 and then multiplied by $163.61. 3. Further, an additional amount is allocated to a school district for each school year in which the district's allocation is less than the amount the district received for LAP in the 2004-05 school year (hold harmless allocation). The amount of the hold harmless allocation maintains the 2004-05 school year allocation level for all districts, each year of the biennium. *$163.61 is allocated per LAP student in 2005-06; $164.96 in 2006-07. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1066.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 1066 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov WA Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Section 2 creates the comprehensive education study steering committee. The director of the Office of Financial Management (OFM) is a member. The steering committee will appoint members to three advisory committees: early learning, K-12, and higher education. The steering committee will receive staff and logistical support from OFM. The committee's charge is to address a number of issues, including: the constitutional and legal requirements of the current finance system and the impact of the goals of the current education reform on the system; strengths and weaknesses of the current finance formulas; potential changes to the finance system; a review of funding systems in at least five states; funding challenges; specific issues facing schools; potential changes to the current compensation system that would align to professional development and student performance. Section 3 authorizes the steering committee to direct and coordinate three studies: 1. A comprehensive K-12 finance study 2. A comprehensive early learning study 3. A comprehensive higher education study http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5441-S2.PL.pdf Title: S.B. 5441 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov MT To governor 04/2005 P-12 Creates a quality schools interim committee. The committee shall continue the work of the joint select committee on education funding established during the 59th legislative session. By December 1, 2005, the committee shall, among other duties,:      (a) assess the educational needs of the children served by the basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools in Montana, as defined by the legislature;      (b) determine the total costs of providing the basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools;      (c) determine the state's share of the total costs of a basic system of free quality public elementary and secondary schools;      (d) construct a funding formula http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2005/billhtml/SB0525.htm Title: S.B. 525 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Deletes definitions of "consolidated average daily membership," "consolidated national school lunch student total" and "national school lunch students" from consolidation/reorganization provisions. Deletes provision that no school facility in a school district included in the consolidation list required by § 6-13-1602 may be closed by the state board or a local school board until after completion of an assessment of public school facilities by the Joint Committee on Educational Facilities. Repeals section 6-13-1604 related to administrative consolidation assistance funds and 6-13-1605 on non-impact of reorganization on charter schools. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf Title: S.B. 1044 (sections 21-27) Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Modifies procedures for conducting the school enrollment census. Requires school census to reflect students transferring into or out of the school from October 1 to September 30th of the following school year, rather than from October 1 to the end of the same school year. Clarifies that the number of students transferring out is to be determined only by the number of official transcripts requested by other schools. Makes other technical changes to school enrollment census procedures. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1044.pdf Title: S.B. 1044 (section 18) Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to: (a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality performance act and other provisions of law relating to school finance and the quality performance accreditation system; (b) evaluate the school district finance and quality performance act and determine if there is a fair and equitable relationship between the costs of the weighted components and assigned weightings; (c) determine if existing weightings should be adjusted; (d) determine if additional school district operations should be weighted; (e) review the amount of base state aid per pupil and determine if the amount should be adjusted; (f) evaluate the reform and restructuring components of the act and assess the impact thereof; (g) evaluate the system of financial support, reform and restructuring of public education in Kansas and in other states to ensure that the Kansas system is efficient and effective; (h) conduct other studies, as directed by the legislative coordinating council, relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof; (i) conduct hearings and receive and consider suggestions from teachers, parents, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies and the general public concerning suggested improvements in the educational system and the financing thereof; (j) appoint advisory committees when deemed necessary. Such advisory committees shall conduct hearings and seek a wide variety of input from individuals and groups affected by and concerned with the quality, efficiency and cost of public elementary and secondary education in Kansas. Such individuals and groups shall include, but not be limited to, teachers, parents, students, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies, professional educational organizations and associations, the business community, institutions of higher education, other persons who have an interest in the quality and efficiency of elementary and secondary education in Kansas and members of the general public interested in the improvement in the state's educational system and the financing thereof. (k) make any recommendation it deems is necessary to guide the legislature to fulfill goals established by the legislature in meeting its constitutional duties of the legislature to: (A) Provide for intellectual, educational, vocational and scientific improvement in public schools established and maintained by the state; and (B) make suitable provision for the finance of the educational interests of the state; (l) examine the availability of revenues to ensure adequate funding of elementary and secondary education in the state; (m) examine school district efficiencies and whether districts are using best practices to deliver a high quality level of services and programs; (n) examine school district consolidation and impediments thereto; (o) examine voluntary activities, including extracurricular activities, which affect educational costs; (p) monitor and evaluate associations and organizations that promote or regulate voluntary or extracurricular activities including, but not limited to, the Kansas state high school activities association; (q) conduct other studies, as directed by the legislature, relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof; (r) make and submit annual reports to the legislature on the work of the commission concerning recommendations of the commission relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof and other topics of study directed to the commission by the legislative coordinating council. Such report also shall include recommendations for legislative changes and shall be submitted to the legislature on or before December 31 of each year. Shifts responsibility for matters or issues relating to school finance from the legislative educational planning committee. Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800 Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465 Title: H.B. 2247 (section 7-9) Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Creates a new formula for determining each district's special education allocation. Specifies that if the appropriation for special education and related services is insufficient to pay in full the amount of state aid each school district is entitled to receive for the school year, the state board must prorate the amount appropriated among all school districts. Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800 Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465 Title: H.B. 2247 (section 10-11) Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Amends pupil definitions and weighting. Repeals language referring to ''correlation weighting.'' Adds new language referring to ''cost of living weighting.'' Includes at-risk education fund as part of the ''program weighted fund. Raises base state aid per pupil from $3,890 to $4,222. Rewrites section relating to low enrollment weighting formula. Amends bilingual education program weighting and at-risk pupil weighting. Creates new section establishing in every district a fund called the at-risk education fund. Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800 Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465 Title: H.B. 2247 (section 12-18) Source: www.kslegislature.org KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Establishes procedures for local tax levies. Establishes in every district a fund called the teacher salary enhancement fund. Creates a formula for determining a district's cost of living weighting. Authorizes any balance remaining in a district's vocational education fund at the end of the budget year to be carried forward into the vocational education fund for succeeding budget years; makes other changes. Changes ''state prescribed percentage'' to 27% for school year 2005-2006, 29% for school year 2006-2007 and 30% for school year 2007-2008 and each school year thereafter. Allows any district that has adopted a local option budget for school year 2004-2005 in an amount equal to the state prescribed in effect prior to the effective date of this act to adopt a local option budget for school year 2005-2006 in an amount equal to the state prescribed percentage in effect on July 1, 2005, by adoption of a resolution. Such resolution shall not be subject to protest or election. Modifies ''statutorily prescribed mill rate.'' Bars school districts from adopt or renew a resolution imposing a tax levy in excess of the statutorily prescribed mill rate. Creates new sections defining ''extraordinary declining enrollment'' as an enrollment which has declined during the preceding three school years at an average rate of at least 5% or by at least 50 pupils, and setting forth rules for bonds and tax levies in districts experiencing such enrollment losses. States that for school year 2005-2006, districts shall not be paid supplemental general state aid for that portion of the local option budget in excess of the state prescribed percentage in effect prior to the effective date of this act. Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800 Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465 Title: H.B. 2247 (section 19-29) Source: www.kslegislature.org AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Amends the public school funding act of 2003. Requires the State Board of Education to promulgate rules clarifying not only which alternative learning environment programs qualify for funding, but also the characteristics of students who qualify for funding because they have been placed in an alternative learning environment program. Clarifies attendance record requirements for purposes of state funding. Adds definitions of the teacher's salary fund, operating fund and debt service fund. Modifies language defining "National school lunch students." Modifies formula for calculating student growth funding for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years. Adds language that a school district that has experienced a significant growth in enrolled students in the previous 3 years must receive funding for the expected increase in the number of national school lunch students based on the expected increase in enrolled students based on the levels of funding provided in this section for national school lunch students. Requires the state board to adopt rules determining specified provisions of this policy. ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB939.pdf Title: S.B. 939 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Includes salaries or supplemental pay for staff for organized physical activity courses as provided under Act 660 of 2005 in the definitions of "Athletic expenditures" and "Interschool scholastic activity expenditures." http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2916.pdf Title: H.B. 2916 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Updates various provisions of the Arkansas code related to public school finance. One provision changes policy from allowing to requiring any increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries to be used by school districts to provide salary increases for current certified personnel positions and for no other purpose. ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB338.pdf Title: S.B. 338 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Increases state foundation funding to provide sufficient funds for teacher insurance. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB1559.pdf Title: H.B. 1559 Source: StateNet NM Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 The "funding formula study task force" is created. The task force shall function from the date of its appointment until December 15, 2006. F. The task force shall: (1) develop a work plan and budget for approval by the New Mexico legislative council; (2) approve the request for proposals for a contractor to conduct the study of the public school funding formula and select the contractor; and (3) make recommendations to the legislature and the governor by December 15, 2006. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/final/SB0125.pdf Title: S.B. 125 Source: StateNet CT Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Corrects a technical error in educational cost sharing distribution and enables the provision of existing funds to interdistrict magnet schools. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/act/Pa/2005PA-00002-R00HB-06489-PA.htm Title: H.B. 6489 Source: www.cga.ct.gov AZ Vetoed 03/2005 P-12 Increases charter school funding and makes changes in provisions for student counts for districts. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1405 Title: S.B. 1405 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Vetoed 03/2005 P-12 Adds a provision to the education funding formula. Ddisqualifies districts from obtaining "growth funding" until the district attains the prior audited full-time student equivalent (FTSE) count if the FTSE is reduced from one year to the next. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1406 Title: S.B. 1406 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us ID Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Amends existing law to authorize a school district board of trustees to apply for an exemption to any portion of a tuition rate for out of district students. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1050.html Title: S.B. 1050 Source: www3.state.id.us KS Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Relates to enrollment. For this purpose, defines "pupils" as students who are dependents of a fulltime active duty member of the military service or miliary reserve who are engaged in mobilizing for war, international peacekeeping missions, national emergency, or homeland defense activities. Establishes a second date for enrollment count on February 20 for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years. Adds that if the number of pupils enrolled in a district in those school years on February 20 has increased from the number of pupils enrolled in the district on September 20 of the same school year by at least 25 pupils or by a number equal to 1% or more of the district's enrollment, the enrollment of the district for the school year will be that from the February 20 count. Bill text: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/SN2059.pdf Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2006/2059.pdf Title: H.B. 2059 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,280; establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,795,446,575; modifies the funding formula for the Enrollment Growth Program; makes one-time appropriations to the state board for fiscal year 2004-05 for: the Electronic High School; and youth in custody programs; and makes one-time appropriations to the state board for fiscal year 2005-06 for: teachers' supplies and materials; online testing; the Enrollment Growth Program; and the Public Education Job Enhancement Program. Appropriates $2.500,000 to the state board for fiscal year 2005-06 to implement a uniform online summative test system. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0382.pdf Title: H.B. 382 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us SD Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Directs the state department to undertake a study of the allocation of state funds to the various public school districts (due by Dec. 1, 2005). The study must include, but is not limited to consideration of the following factors: (1) The allocation of funds to sparse school districts; (2) The redistribution of funds currently allocated through what is commonly called the small school factor; (3) The role of distance or remote education in the delivery of education services; (4) The appropriate minimum size of a secondary school; (5) The method by which to distribute money to account for the decline or increase in the number of elementary and secondary students in the state's public schools (6) The possible inclusion of other revenues into the state aid formula; and (7) Transportation services and costs. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/SB157enr.pdf Title: S.B. 157 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 To amend sections of the Arkansas code pertaining to distributions of county's school fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1373.pdf Title: H.B. 1373 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill: < establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186; < establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,258; < appropriates $27,288,900 to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2005-06 for school building aid programs for school districts; < directs the state superintendent to include certain expenditure data in an annual report to the governor and the Legislature; and < imposes a deadline for the authorization of a charter school in order to qualify for certain state funds. The superintendent's report must include (new requirements) a complete statement, by school district and charter school, of the amount of and percentage increase or decrease in expenditures from the previous year attributed to: (A) wage increases, with expenditure data for base salary adjustments identified separately from step and lane expenditures; (B) medical and dental premium cost adjustments; and (C) adjustments in the number of teachers and other staff. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0003.pdf Title: H.B. 3 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us IA Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF36 Title: S.F. 36 Source: StateNet IN Signed into law 01/2005 P-12 Revises the funding formula for the K-3 class size reduction program. Effective retroactive to January 1, 2005. Makes other adjustments. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 181 and 233) Source: www.in.gov MT Rule Adoption 12/2004 P-12 Postsec. Relates to out-of-state attendance agreements. The superintendent of public instruction shall provide payment of the amount calculated in (4)(a), but not more than the amount of tuition paid by the district for resident students who attended school out-of-state, in the year the out-of-district attendance report is submitted, provided it is submitted with documentation of payment, to the superintendent of public instruction within the school year following the year of attendance Title: ARM 10.10.301C Source: StateNet CA Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 P-12 The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred by a local agency or school district to implement a new program or higher level of service. Existing law creates certain exceptions. This bill includes within that exception costs mandated by a statute or executive order that imposes a duty on a local agency or school district that was expressly included in a ballot measure approved by the voters in a local election. Repeals provisions requiring a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school transportation, the funding made available pursuant to voluntary desegregation programs and requires that pupils in grades 7 to 12 who apply to transfer from a school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to another school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District to be granted a transfer according to certain priorities, among which is that the transfer would mitigate schoolsite segregation. Replaces with statement of the intent of the Legislature that, if the Grant Joint Union High School District is reorganized to create two new unified school districts, the reorganization must be implemented in a manner that provides constitutionally permissible opportunities for the voluntary racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic integration of pupils attending each school district. Requires a proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007, to include requirements that pupils eligible to enroll in any of grades 7 to 12, except expelled pupils, whose parents are residents of any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District have the same rights to enroll in any secondary school in a district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District as a pupil whose parents are residents of that other district, and that the successor school districts to the Grant Joint Union High School District provide free transportation to these pupils if they so request, hold joint annual meetings to review segregation issues, and grant seniority rights to employees of school districts that cease to exist as a result of the proposal who become employees of the successor districts. Requires a ballot measure to approve this proposal to clearly inform the voters that by approving the measure the voters are mandating the successor school districts to incur costs to implement the requirements described above and that these costs would not be reimbursed by the state. Makes legislative findings and declarations in this regard. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1271_bill_20040823_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1271_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1271 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil enrollment of the class above a different prescribed number. Authorizes a district located in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura to claim class size reduction funding for 2003-04 based on enrollment counts before the October 2003 fires, if the district lost or exceeded enrollment due to the fires. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_311_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_311_sign.pdf Title: S.B. 311 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Establishes the Pupil Achievement Grant Program to consolidate funding and provide flexibility at the schoolsite in the use of funds from specified categorical education programs in schools identified as underperforming in at least one of the three preceding fiscal years. Requires a school district to ensure that it expends an amount for direct services to pupils in eligible schools in accordance with specified minimum percentages for any purpose authorized by special categorical education programs. Requires a school district receiving program funds to ensure that the school district and each school has or continues to maintain advisory committees and schoolsite councils. Requires a district to have a single school plan that incorporates specified requirements and to use funds allocated to serve and assist pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals and pupils identified as limited English proficient. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2152_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2152_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2152 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Establishes block grants to be composed of funding for specified existing categorical education programs. Repeals dates of the Early Intervention for School Success Program. Establishes a pupil retention block grant, school safety consolidated block grants, teacher credentialing block grant, professional development block grant, a new targeted instructional improvement block grant and school library improvement block grant. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_825_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_825_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 825 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims from local governmental agencies, including school district, for reimbursement of costs of state mandates with the Commission on State Mandates. Revises the definitions of terms related to the procedure and hearing and defines additional terms. Abolishes the State Mandates Claims Fund. Deletes the option of paying claims from the fund. Makes other technical changes and deletes obsolete references. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2856_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 2856 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Consolidates the funding for programs aimed at promoting the development of teachers in specific areas, and establishes the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005 to provide flexible professional development block grants to school districts. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually award the block grants from funding provided in the annual Budget Act. Provides for the block grant amounts to be calculated according to a specified formula and would require a school district to demonstrate that its staff development programs meet specified criteria prior to receiving a block grant. Requires the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation to assess the impact of the act on teacher quality and pupil improvement and would require an interim report to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007, and a final report to be submitted no later than January 1, 2009. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1650_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1650_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1650 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required by a school district as a condition of receipt of a high school diploma, a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be under the immediate supervision of the certificated teacher of the history or social science course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1944_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1944_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1944 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formulas should be modified to allow school districts and county offices of education to initiate new transportation programs and receive state funding on a equitable basis. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1253_bill_20040828_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1253_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1253 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of an inflation or cost-of-living increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2462_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2462_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2462 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Establishes a task force to develop options for restructuring the funding formula for state aid. Authorizes the use of specified funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2004 for implementing these provisions. Makes an appropriation. Relates to economic impact aid to school districts based on the number of economically disadvantaged pupils and other factors. Requires the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Quality Education Commission on or before January 1, 2006. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1645_bill_20040823_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1645_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1645 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 Postsec. Provides that the allocation of statewide authorized adult education average daily attendance would be modified pursuant to a specified formula. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate the excess funds as grants to school districts operating adult education programs, based on an equal amount per unit of adult education average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1309_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_1309_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1309 Source: California Legislative Web site NY Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Provides that the transportation of pupils by a school district in child safety zones shall be considered regular aidable transportation; eliminates expiration of and makes permanent provisions of the education law providing for the transportation of pupils in child safety zones. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S04772&sh=t Title: S.B. 4772 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a school district to allocate funds to each school in its district based on a weighted per pupil formula and to make recommendations regarding its findings. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 64201 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2776 that would become operative only if AB 2776 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2005, and this bill is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2351-2400/ab_2373_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2373_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2373 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 08/2004 P-12 Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of apportioning funds to school districts on the basis of enrollment rather than on the basis of average daily attendance. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2751-2800/ab_2776_bill_20040812_enrolled.html AB 2373 would incorporate additional changes in Section 64201 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2776 that would become operative only if AB 2776 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2005, and AB 2373 is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2351-2400/ab_2373_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2776_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2776 Source: California Legislative Web site GA Active 08/2004 P-12 The governor announced "The Quality Basic Education (QBE) Task Force in February 2004. The task force will look at realigning the school funding formula to ensure it serves all students in the new era of accountability. The task force is authorized under O.C.G.A. 20-2-161. http://www.gov.state.ga.us/press/2004/press369.shtml Title: N/A Source: Georgia State Web site CA Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Community College Suspends the minimum funding obligation of school districts and community college districts. Requires the amount of money to be applied by the state for these district's support during the 2004-05 fiscal year to be calculated by subtracting a certain amount of funding that would otherwise be required to be applied for the support of these districts during the 2004-05 fiscal year if the suspension had not occurred. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1101_bill_20040811_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 1101 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, provides that calculation of Available Local Resources shall exclude tax amnesty funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0875 Title: S.B. 2362 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Postsec. Creates the FY2005 Budget Implementation (Education) Act. Creates several education related funds for receipt of federal moneys for education and other areas; addresses subjects students must be tested on; provides transitional assistance payments; increases the foundation level of support of supplemental state aid in relation to districts with a Low Income Concentration Level over a specified amount; provides for the National Guard Grant Program for tuition assistance. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0838 Title: S.B. 2205 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Amends the School Code. In the State aid formula provisions, increases the foundation level of support from $4,810 to $5,060. Effective July 1, 2004. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0808 Title: H.B. 4266 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 07/2004 P-12 Deletes the reduction in base revenue limit funding that results to certain school districts for offering less than 180 days of instruction. Conditions the entitlement to the same support from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance on the districts operating under the provisions of law relating to the 180-day school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1142_bill_20040701_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB1142Veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1142 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Provides that if, at the time of enrollment, dependents of United States military personnel are housed in temporary housing located outside of a school district, but will be living within that school district within 60 days after the time of initial enrollment, the dependents shall be enrolled, upon a sufficient showing of proof, and shall not be charged non-resident tuition but may be counted in determining state aid. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0740 Title: S.B. 2444 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 P-12 Creates the "Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act, " and would create a joint legislative committee of ten members to establish a permanent education foundation and education formula for the state - the committee's final report is due October 1, 2005.. Title: S.B. 3182 Source: StateNet PA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Amends the Public School Code of 1949. Makes provisions regarding school budgets, limitations on balances, auxiliary services, cost of tuition for exceptional children in private schools, charter school tuition for the deaf and blind, Head Start supplemental assistance, school improvement grants, educational improvement tax credits, vocational curriculums, special education payments, and reimbursements for charter and cyber charter schools. Title: H.B. 564 Source: StateNet AR Rule Adoption 06/2004 P-12 Repeals rules regarding Act 2 of 1994 as amended by Act 1228 of 1995, relating to the determination of the amount of Minimum Foundation Program Aid for each district. ARKANSAS REG 3948 (SN) http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/Repeal%20Act%202%20of%201994.pdf Title: ADE 171 Source: Arkansas State Web site AK Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Increases the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education; and providing for an effective date." http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=HB0233Z&session=23 Title: H.B. 233 Source: Alaska Legislative Web site CO Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1397 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site TX Rule Adoption 05/2004 P-12 Amends rules concerning the foundation school program. Relates to rules for the definition of tax and levy and tax collection. TEXAS REG 95053 (SN) http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tacupdates/may2004/ch062.pdf Title: 19 TAC 105.A.105.1 Source: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules HI Veto override 05/2004 P-12 Establishes a weighted student formula; provides additional information technology; empowers principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; strengthens community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; provides more mathematics textbooks; lowers class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; provides full-time, year-round student activity coordinators; provides support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; establishes a national board certification incentive program for teachers; enhances teacher education; reduces the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; improves the educational accountability system; requires the board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3238_sd2_.htm Title: S.B. 3238 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site KS Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerns the computation of the amount of state financial aid received by school districts that consolidate; establishes the Center for Innovative School Leadership; establishes membership requirements of school site councils, allows self-administration of asthma or allergy medication by student. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/304.pdf Supplemental Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN0304.pdf Fiscal Note: http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2004/304.pdf Title: S.B. 304 Source: StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iii) require five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; (vii) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation. A second enactment clause provides that any provision that is not required on June 30, 2004, and does require state funding will not take effect unless the state's share of the funding for the provision is included in the general appropriation act for the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2006, passed during the 2004 Session of the General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor. The Board of Education proposed and approved these changes on June 25, 2003. Because the Virginia Constitution grants the General Assembly "ultimate authority" over educational policy and provides that the Standards are to be "prescribed from time to time by the Board of Education" but are subject to revision "only by the General Assembly," legislation is necessary to enact the Board's proposals. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0939 Title: S.B. 479, H.B. 1014 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us WY Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Provides assistance to districts for reading assessment and intervention programs; implements the adjustment to the education resource block grant model for experience and longevity of school district classified staff; modifies the at-risk adjustment to include mobile students; modifies the small school adjustment; provides a foundation program hold harmless; clarifies cost of living index computations; imposes duties upon the Department of Education. Title: H.B. 93 Source: StateNet IA Vetoed 03/2004 P-12 Relates to education funding, providing for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, making appropriations, and providing an applicability date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2124 and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.2/SJournal//sj040308.pdf#page=18 Title: S.F. 2124 Source: StateNet SD Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Increases the per student allocation in the state aid to education formula. Title: S.B. 206 Source: StateNet TX Adopted 03/2004 P-12 Sets administrative ratios for funding purposes; addresses "gap funding" to meet equalization requirements. Title: 61.AA Source: www.tea.state.us UT Rule Adoption 02/2004 P-12 Establishes rules to provide a formula and procedures for funding for school districts that have certain percentages of licensed professional staff. UTAH REG 26828 (SN) Title: R277-486 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 12/2003 P-12 Requires the department of education provide assistance to the Office of Economic and Tax Policy when requested to provide the office with any information regarding changes in the calculation of state aid to public school districts within 7 days of the change. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1019.pdf Title: H.B. 1019 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site IL Bill Dead - Amendatory Veto 11/2003 P-12 Amends the school code. States that in recomputing a general state aid claim that was originally calculated using an extension limitation equalized assessed valuation, a qualifying reduction in equalized assessed valuation shall be deducted from the extension limitation equalized assessed valuation that was used in calculating the original claim. Provides that the state shall incorporate adjustments made by court order in a tax objection case. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1321&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=4346&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 1321 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site NV Adopted 09/2003 P-12 Revises the number of courses certain pupils must be enrolled in for the purpose of calculating basic support. NEVADA REG 3129 (SN) Title: NAC 387.345 Source: StateNet NV Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Section 164.50, one section of this bill, relates to expenditures on instructional materials, educational retirement and class size. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/20thSpecial/bills/SB/SB8_EN.html Title: S.B. 8 - Sec. 164.50 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us RI Became law without governor's signature 07/2003 P-12 Allocates moneys from the student equity investment fund based on each district's proportion of resident children eligible for USDA reimbursable school meals relative to the total number of eligible students statewide. Title: H.B. 6055 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Creates the Mathematics and Science Block Grant Program in order to provide greater flexibility and efficiency in the distribution and use of state funds and ensure that students meet or exceed Illinois Learning Standards for Science. Provides that Mathematics and Science Block Grant Program funds shall be distributed to school districts subject to appropriation. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=SB&DocNum=201 Title: S.B. 201 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Specifies that before approving the minimum foundation program formula, the legislature, by majority vote in both chambers of the legislature, may return the formula adopted by the state board of elementary and secondary education and may recommend to the board an amended formula for consideration by the board and submission to the legislature for approval. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KT0M.PDF Title: S.B. 578 Source: www.legis.state.la.us OH Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Funding Formula: Eliminates the requirement that the General Assembly recalculate the base funding amount every six years. Eliminates school districts ability to calculate their student enrollment on a three year rolling basis. Requires the Department to develop a new method for determining school district attendance rates. Decreases the annual inflation factor in the funding formula from 2.8% to 2.2%. Vouchers: Increases the amount of the Pilot Scholarship Program (Cleveland Vouchers) from $2,500 to $3,000. Allows for 9th and 10th graders to qualify for the Cleveland Vouchers and increases the amount of private tuition that parents can be required to pay in addition to the funds provided by the voucher. Charters: Requires the state to pay charter schools, instead of school districts, for each enrolled student. In addition states are to subtract funding for each student who leaves a district school to attend a charter school. Title: H.B. 95 Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 ME Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Implements school funding based on essential programs and services; targets increased State share percentage; provides for transition adjustment; addresses distribution method. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011049&LD=1623&Type=1 Title: S.P. 575 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates the FY2004 Budget Implementation (Education) Act with the purpose of the Act to make changes relating to education that are necessary to implement the State's FY2004 budget. Makes changes to the State aid formula provisions by increasing the foundation level of support and changing the amount of and how a supplemental general State aid grant is calculated. Exempts gifted education from block grant funding. Makes changes concerning reimbursement to community college districts for classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted. Makes changes concerning which courses are eligible for reimbursement under the Public Community College Act. Adds requirements that a community college district must meet for equalization funding. Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act to repeal a Section concerning Illinois Future Teacher Corps Scholarships. Renames the ITEACH Teacher Shortage Scholarship Program the Illinois Future Teacher Corps Program, and makes other changes (including who may receive a scholarship, the scholarship amount, and where a recipient must agree to teach). http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=744&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3589&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 744 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Relates to computation of wealth per student for certain school districts; provides for adjusted property value for districts not offering all grade levels. Title: H.B. 1619 Source: StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Under current law, a school district is entitled to compensatory education funding to provide services to students who are educationally disadvantaged or who are at risk of dropping out of school. However, a school district is prohibited from using compensatory education funds for a program provided for dyslexic students under Section 38.003 (Screening and Treatment for Dyslexia and Related Disorders), Education Code. H.B. 1691 allows compensatory education funds to be used for accelerated reading programs for students at risk of dyslexia and for treatment programs for students who have been determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder. (From Bill Analysis, Senate Research) http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=01691&VERSION=5&TYPE=B Title: H.B. 1691 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us AL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 To establish the Foundation Program funding divisors for the state allocation of teacher units and to express intent that adequate instructional support and classified staff be provided for the public schools, the Department of Youth Services School District and the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. To also express intent that the Education Trust Fund Appropriations Act be enacted no later than September 30, 2003. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027 Title: S.B. 1 Source: Alabama Legislative Web site AL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Foundation Program revised: minimum school days increased to 180 days by 2008, allocation for professional days and leave, additional instructional support allowance, average daily membership based on first 20 school days after Labor Day, pupil-teacher ratios for funding, assignment of teachers based on enrollment with waiver provisions; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027 Title: S.B. 4 Source: Alabama Legislative Web site VT Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 This act clarifies that the state board of education is authorized to administer federal education funds available under the No Child Left Behind Act; for the next two years, authorizes the commissioner of education to make an annual, instead of biennial, determination as to whether each Vermont school is meeting quality standards and to implement certain consequences for low performing schools after two years instead of four years; stipulates that for the next school year, a homeless child may be educated in the school of origin despite Vermont law that stipulates that a homeless child shall be educated where the child is living; and establishes a committee to oversee implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT064.HTM The general assembly finds that: the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB), has the potential to dramatically change the way education services are provided in Vermont; (2)  Implementation of NCLB could have a major impact on the revenues of the state and the cost of education to Vermont taxpayers.  NCLB provides the state of Vermont with over $50 million in federal funds for fiscal year 2004, most of which is the consolidation of past federal aid programs.  It is unclear whether federal funds will be enough to implement the provisions of the Act with some estimates indicating the potential for large unfunded mandates at both the state and local levels; and (3)  Without legislative oversight, virtually all decisions regarding how the act will be implemented could be made by the state board of education as it is the agency charged with working with the federal government to align Vermont's education system with provisions of federal law. Therefore, it is the intent of the general assembly to establish a no child left behind oversight committee for the purpose of: (1)  reviewing any NCLB–related request for proposal process.  It is the intent of the general assembly that the department of education shall consider approaching other states prior to issuing an NCLB–related request for proposal to determine if a joint contract would be more cost effective; (2)  receiving notification of any NCLB–related contract, grant agreement, amended contract, or amended grant agreement of greater than $10,000.00 prior to awarding any funds under the contract or grant agreement;  (3)  developing a process for reviewing significant state board or commissioner of education decisions regarding implementation of NCLB; (4)  reviewing information about technical assistance that the department of education is providing to Vermont schools and school districts regarding implementation of NCLB; (5)  proposing recommendations to the state board and commissioner of education and the legislature about any future decisions regarding implementation of NCLB; (6)  by December 15, 2003, proposing recommendations to the senate and house committees on education and appropriations to ensure that neither the state nor local school districts will incur costs to implement NCLB other than those funded by the federal government; and (7)  receiving reports from the commissioner of education on his or her best estimate of the costs of implementing NCLB at the state level in January of 2004 and 2005. Title: S.B. 185 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs WA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Suspends teacher cost-of-living provisions for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years. Deletes the following provision: Beginning with the 2001-02 school year, the state shall fully fund the cost-of-living increase in this section as part of its obligation to meet the basic education requirements under Article IX of the Washington Constitution. Commits to the following: Beginning with the 2001-2002 fiscal year, and for each subsequent fiscal year except for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 fiscal years, the state shall fully fund the cost-of-living increase set forth in this section. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/6050-6074/6059_pl.pdf Title: S.B. 6059 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov AK Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Relates to school transportation; relates to the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education. http://www.legis.state.ak.us/pdf/23/Bills/SB0202B.PDF Title: S.B. 202 Source: Alaska Legislative Web site TN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Revises the criteria for determining at-risk children for pre-school and early learning programs from those "who live below the poverty line determined pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 9847" to those "who meet eligibility requirements identical to those met by school age children qualifying for free and reduced lunch pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1771. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB1975.pdf Title: S.B. 1975 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us MT Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Establishes a K-12 public school renewal commission to propose amendments and new provisions to components of K-12 education, including governance and finance structures and the state and federal roles in public education. The commission must include at a minimum the governor, the superintendent of public instruction and specified members of the state legislature. In addition, the governor must identify between 10 and 25 entitites to send a representative to serve on the commission and name a representative from the juvenile corrections division. The commission must present its findings and recommendations to the education and local government interim committee by September 15, 2004, and may recommend legislation. Provides an appropriation. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0736.htm Web site for the Montana K-12 Public School Renewal Commission: http://www.state.mt.us/gov2/css/boards/renewal/default.asp Title: H.B. 736 Source: data.opi.state.mt.us ND Vetoed 04/2003 P-12 Concerns school district per student payments and weighting factors, supplemental payments and teacher compensation. Title: S.B. 2154 Source: StateNet ND Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Relates to reports made to the county superintendent of schools and the Superintendent of Public Instruction; regards students in average daily membership and apportioned funds. On or before June thirtieth of each year, the school board must certify to the superintendent of public instruction, in the form and manner prescribed by the superintendent, the students in average daily membership for the recently completed school year. The superintendent shall notify the school district of any student average daily membership that is disallowed. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DQVQ0300.pdf Title: H.B. 1166 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Allows the states to further reduce education spending. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2511.pdf Title: H.B. 2511 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Changes the calculation for determining enrollment growth program units. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/senate/SB0231.html Title: S.B. 231 Source: http://legis.state.nm.us NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Relates to public school finance; changes the calculation for determining enrollment growth program units. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/house/HB0169.pdf Title: H.B. 169 Source: http://legis.state.nm.us ND Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Amends the funding formula for educating English language learners. Ratchets up the amount of funding as English skills improve, ranging from a multiple of 10 for the lowest proficiencies to a multiple of 4 for students with higher proficiency in English. Requires districts to assess each eligible student using a proficiency test that is aligned to the state English language proficiency standards and the state language proficiency test. Also requires districts to describe its English language learner program and report the result of the district's annual student assessment. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DBFK0300.pdf Title: H.B. 1383 Source: http://www.state.nd.us UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 This act modifies the State System of Public Education Code by providing funding for the Minimum School Program and school building aid programs. This act establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2003-04 of $1,611,343,274, which includes a one-time appropriation of $5,000,000 for classroom supplies. This act establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,150. This act appropriates $27,288,900 for school building aid programs. This act establishes the maximum funding level for the School LAND Trust Program. This act dedicates a portion of the interest and dividends received from the investment of monies in the Permanent State School Fund for teachers' classroom supplies. Addresses the funding for charter schools. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillenr/hb0003.pdf Title: H.B. 3 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us SD Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Increases the per student allocation in the state aid to education formula. Title: S.B. 170 Source: StateNet IA Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Provides for an establishment of the State percent of growth for purpose of the State School Foundation Program for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2004. Title: S.F. 211 Source: StateNet OH Adopted 02/2003 P-12 State board unanimously approved a school funding resolution expressing the board's commitment to work with the Governor and the Ohio General Assembly to explore ways to better fund Ohio's public schools. The Board requested in the resolution that the Governor consider having State Board representation on his Blue Ribbon Task Force on Financing Student Success. Title: N/A Source: http://webapp1.ode.state.oh.us/cncs/view.asp?id=421593399211167151 OH Signed into law 01/2003 P-12 Provides procedures for the expansion of sponsorship of community schools to certain school districts; creates a Community School Revolving Loan Fund and Community School Security Fund; requires a study of E-schools; related to Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid payments. Title: H.B. 364 Source: StateNet MI Signed into law 12/2002 P-12 Modifies state reimbursement to intermediate school districts in renaissance zones. http://www.mileg.org/documents/2001-2002/publicact/pdf/2002-PA-0745.pdf Title: S.B. 1417 Source: StateNet GA Adopted 09/2002 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding the withholding of funds from local units of administration. Title: GAC 160-5-2-.02 Source: WestLaw OR Approved by voters 9/2002 09/2002 P-12 (HJR 80 - 2002) Amends the Constitution. Creates a "rainy day" reserve fund for public schools and colleges by converting the existing Education Endowment Fund to the Education Stability Fund. Allocates $150 million from the fund for local school budgets. Increases the percentage of net proceeds from the state lottery fund that are allocated to this fund. Creates a matching fund to help school districts with construction needs. Title: Measure 19 Source: Oregon Elections Division KS Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Concerns certain school districts and the computation of state financial aid; relates to powers and duties of schools and school districts; relates to consolidation of districts and the transfer of territory; provides that the State Board of Education must provide for a community service program to be offered to all accredited high schools in the state. Title: S.B. 551 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Became law without governor's signature 06/2002 P-12 Requires joint legislative budget committee staff to analyze school district cost data from FY 2000-01 before July 1, 2002 to find the average per-pupil current expenditure for each district for administrative functions and to see if each district predicted per pupil cost level for those functions on the basis of information reported by districts of similar size and type. Requires the auditor general to report to the general assembly before December 1, 2002 on conditions that may explain disparities in administrative costs for districts identified by the joint legislative budget committee as having reported significantly higher or lower average per-pupil current expenditures for administrative functions for FY 2000-01, with emphasis on those districts found to have particularly high or low average per pupil administrative costs for FY 2000-01 but not identified as having had very high or low average per pupil administrative costs for FY 1998-99 and vice versa. The analysis must consider factors that resulted in these districts' reporting unusually high or low average per-pupil administrative costs for just one of the two FYs analyzed. See Section 50: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/bills/hb2710c.htm Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2710 Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us IL Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Requires schools that are part of the sample drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics to administer the biennial State academic assessments of 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics under the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Provides that the school report card must be posted on the schools website rather than automatically mailed to parents, and a written notice sent home to parents with the Web site address. Printed copies are available on request. Requires districts to adopt policies for the transfer of students within the district. Requires requests for transfer in relation to ESEA to be made within 30 days of notification of right to transfer. Establishes criteria under which local board may refuse request to transfer. Requires the notifice of parents of child's placement in bilingual education program to include more specific information, including reasons why child was placed in program, child's level of English proficiency, how this level was assessed, and the child's current level of academic achievement. Permits parents to immediately withdraw child from bilingual program rather than at time of notice or end of semester. Increases supplemental aid to low income school districts. http://www.legis.state.il.us/publicacts/pubact92/acts/92-0604.html Title: S.B. 1983 Source: www.legis.state.il.us SC Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Authorizes school districts and special schools to transfer up to 20 percent of revenue between programs to any instructional program with the same funding source; expends funds received from the children's education endowment fund for school facilities and fixed equipment. Title: H.B. 4663 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Mandates state board to identify students simultaneously enrolled in a course for both high school and college credit using student level data element already in statute. Authorizes auditor general to access this information when certifying the full-time equivalent student enrollment for purposes of calculating state aid. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0241.htm Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2213 Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us NH Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Modifies the formula for calculating the portion of the adequate education grant based on free and reduced-price lunches. Title: S.B. 140 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Modifies 1999 Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (IIUSP), which formerly required that every participating school district contract with an external evaluator for assistance in development of the school's action plan. Bill allows district to alternatively contract with an entity that has proven, successful expertise specific to the challenges inherent in low-performing schools, including institutions of higher education, county offices of education or school district personnel. Modifies High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low-Performing Schools to automatically approve school for participation upon school's completion of an action plan for participation in the federal program meeting certain requirements that plan for IIUSP participation must meet, and changes deadlines for submission and approval of school action plan during FY 01-02. Increases to $400 the amount of per-pupil money provided under the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools. Specifies that High Priority Program school must assess pupils' progress with curriculum-based tests proven to be "valid and reliable." Mandates that already-required department study on sustainability of funding for low-performing schools include "(1) An objective rather than a comparative view of the necessity of sustaining supplemental funding over time to address the ongoing needs of low-performing pupils, and the impact of policies that only provide funding over a specified period of time. (2) A description of the ongoing needs of low-performing schools, as identified in needs assessments submitted pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of 52055.620 and the sources of funding schools used to meet these needs. (3) An analysis of the use of funds provided pursuant to this article and the effectiveness of that use in meeting the continued or changing needs of communities served by low-performing schools. This analysis shall include an evaluation of the growth in academic achievement realized by participating schools and the ability of those schools to sustain growth in academic achievement if funding is continued. (4) An assessment of whether local, state, and federal resources are likely to be sufficient to sustain all or some of the academic improvements made in low-performing schools after this state subsidy expires, taking into account prospects for the subsequent pupil population's incidence of poverty and low socioeconomic status." Requires every school district with any schools participating in High Priority Schools Grant Program to submit to state superintendent an analysis of the impact, costs and benefits of the program to the district and local participating schools. Requires the state superintendent to develop and the state board to approve guidelines for an RFP for an independent evaluator to create a multiyear comprehensive evaluation of the implementation, impact, costs and benefits of the program and to release the results of the report to the General Assembly, the Governor and other interested parties. Also specifies that average daily attendance funds are to be allocated to local education agencies and that child care and preschool programs whose average daily enrollment helps determine the allocation must be operated by local education agencies under contract with the Child Development Division of the State Department of Education. Bill modifies means of determining the average daily enrollment of children in preschool and child care programs. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_508_bill_20020516_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 508 Source: info.sen.ca.gov MD Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires that county board financial audit results be reported to state superintendent, county fiscal authority, and specified house and senate committees. Requries Management Oversight Panel to monitor implementation of audits' recommendations and coordination office to support Management Oversight Panel until the state superintendent determines that all the audits' recommendations have been addressed. Modifies the basic current expense formula to create a new foundation program for state education funding; creates a compensatory education funding program; creates a funding program for students with limited English; creates a special education funding program; establishes guaranteed tax base program. Extends funding for public school construction projects in Prince George's County and Baltimore City from 2003 to 2004. Establishes Task Force to Study Public School Facilities; requires task force to study specified issues in the realms of school construction. Terminates task force on December 31, 2002. Provides unrestricted grants of specified amounts in FY 03 to county boards. Requires Prince George's County Board to develop and submit comprehensive master plan and Superintendent to approve master plan before it receives its unrestricted grant. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf Title: S.B. 856 Source: mlis.state.md.us IA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Provides for an additional weighting for students identified as limited English proficient of twenty- two hundredths. Title: H.B. 2404 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Establishes a timeline for a transition to a new school funding approach in order to provide all children with an equitable opportunity to access the resources necessary to achieve learning standards; defines essential programs and services, including elements funded on a per-pupil basis; defines major cost components to be determined on other than a per-pupil basis; provides for targeted grants. Title: H.B. 1602 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NE Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Changes the calculation of state aid to education for 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05. The bill establishes a temporary aid adjustment factor that reduces each local school system's ""need", allocated income tax funds and net option funding by 1.25%. The bill reduces the factors used to compute the stabilization factor and small stabilization adjustment by 1.25%. The lop-off provision is adjusted to reflect receipts from other school districts related to annexation. LB 898 also requires the recertification of 2002-03 state aid before May1, 2002. The state department estimates the general fund fiscal impact of the bill to be a $22,223,160 decrease in state aid in 2002-03. The 1.25% decrease in formula need, allocated income tax funds and net option funding will result in a decrease in state aid for the majority of school systems. A few school systems impacted by the stabilization factors will have little or no decrease in state aid. The statewide average decrease in aid from the amount certified in February 2002 is 3.26%. The bill also allows school districts to exceed the levy limitation with a three-fourths majority vote of the school board by an amount that is the difference between the amount of state aid that would have been provided without the changes made in LB 898. This provision allows school districts at the levy maximum to increase property tax receipts by the amount of the decrease in state aid, if 75% of the board votes to do so. NDE will have a minimal increase in expenditures to certify these amounts to school districts by the required dates. It is assumed the increase in expenditures can be handled with the resources of the agency. Title: L.B. 898 Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us MS Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2002 P-12 Prescribes the State cost of the State Adequate Education Program for purposes of determining allocation to school districts in fiscal year 2003; clarifies the program's cost components; clarifies the use of education enhancement funds for the purchase of textbooks for approved nonpublic schools. Title: S.B. 2969 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Relates to school finance; modifies the education resource block grant model in response to the supreme court decision; implements recalibration of cost based prototypical school models; modifies requirements for out of state high school tuition payments; transfers and modifies school finance audits; provides for additional studies; provides for appropriations; authorizes additional personnel. Title: S.B. 51 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Changes the calculation of the at-risk index used to determine additional program units, to assist students to reach their full academic potential. Title: S.B. 61 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 08/2001 P-12 Chapter No.155. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an equalization adjustment for each school district so that no district's prior year base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance is less than the prior year base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance above which fall not more than 10% of the total statewide units for the appropriate size and type of district. Title: A.B. 441 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 08/2001 P-12 Chapter No.203, Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform specified computations with respect to special education local planning areas and affected pupils and to permanently increase the amount per unit of average daily attendance for those areas. States that, commencing with the 2001-02 fiscal year to the 2010-11 fiscal year, a specific amount of funds shall be appropriated, once each fiscal year, for allocation to school districts pursuant to a prescribed calculation. Title: S.B. 982 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet PA Signed into law 06/2001 Postsec. Community College Act No. 35 of 2001., Amends Public School Code. Provides for school districts, national assessment tests, school director relations with districts, management reports, distressed districts, equipment, duty to employ qualified professionals, continuing development, proof of residency, tuition costs, agricultural education, charter school funding, retirement plans, vocational schools, basic education funding formula and other like issues. Requires state department to conduct a study of public schools providing Internet instruction. Allows any community college that was approved as a community college by the state board after January 1, 1990, to be dissolved after a determination by the Secretary of Education that the majority of the education and training programs operated by the college are non-academic in nature. Title: S.B. 485 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Provides that for the purpose of calculating the grant index, school districts are grouped into categories to compute equalized assessed valuation per pupil in average daily attendance. Title: H.B. 2255 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Amends the School Code; increases the foundation level of support, the average daily attendance figures utilized in the computation of general state aid, the amount of a supplemental general state aid grant, and which school districts may receive grants; extends repeal date. Title: H.B. 3050 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the state education fund and specifies how the amount of revenues to be deposited in the fund is to be derived; defines the terms "categorical programs", "federal taxable income, as modified by law," "inflation" and total state funding for all categorical programs. Title: S.B. 204 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Increases the total partial equivalence relation average number belonging and basic entitlements for public schools for school fiscal years beginning on or after 7/1/01; increases the basic entitlement for an elementary school district or a K-12 school district elementary program to a specified amount; increases the basic entitlement for a high school district to a specified amount. Title: H.B. 121 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Under current law, if entitlements increase by more than 4% in a single fiscal year, school budgets not at the BASE might not be able to increase the full amount of the increase. This bill removes that restriction. As a result, school budgets and local tax levies might be higher. Title: H.B. 164 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NE Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Section 16 changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula (TEEOSA). The bill provides that general fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need". The State Department of Education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. Section 20 provides that net option funding will be the net number of option students in each grade range times the statewide average cost grouping cost per student multiplied by the weighting factor for the corresponding grade range. Current law provides that net option funding will be net number of option students in each grade range times the lesser of the statewide average cost grouping cost per student or the local system cost grouping cost per student multiplied by the weighting factor for the corresponding grade range. This change will shift a minimal amount of state aid between school districts. The change means that schools in the standard cost grouping that receive net option funding will receive a higher amount of net option funding since the aid will be based on the statewide average cost grouping cost rather than the local system cost grouping cost. The increase in net option aid will reduce the amount available through the formula as income tax rebate. Since net option funding and income tax rebates are considered to be resources for purposes of determining the overall amount of state aid received, the change will only have a minimal impact on state aid provided to districts that are not receiving equalization aid. [Summary from Fiscal Note.) Title: L.B. 797--Two Components Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site NE Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula. General fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need." resulting in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. The state department of education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. Title: L.B. 797 Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site CO Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 This bill makes adjustments in the school aid formula including the addition of funding for pre-school programs. The full text of the bill is below. Title: S.B. 129 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Revises the school finance laws; clarifies the requirement that a school district operate for both the minimum number of pupil instruction days and the minimum number of hours; clarifies the duty of the County Superintendent regarding the apportionment of County equalization money; prohibits a change in school district boundaries until a district's mill levies have been set. Title: S.B. 390 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Exempts all school district levies from property tax mill levy limitations; increases the mill levy limit for adult education. Title: S.B. 117 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Directs the State Board of Education to conduct a study of public education, its structure, financial needs, and funds needed for improvement. Title: H.B. 2169 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Relates to small school districts exemption from the general budget limit. Title: H.B. 2183 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Revises school funding through the use of the Public School Fund; revises the structure of the Public School Fund; authorizes the Board of Investments to purchase the mineral rights held by the public school fund; provides that royalty payments on the purchased mineral rights must be deposited in the guarantee account. Title: S.B. 495 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Amends the definition of base aid to include a percentage of the special education allowable cost payment; amends definition of maximum general fund budget to increase the special education allowable cost payment component. Title: S.B. 94 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ND Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Relates to the amount set per student as part of the funding formula. Also, establishes school district employee compensation report. Requires districts beginning in 2002, to provide the following information to the superintendent of public instruction, with respect to teachers and with respect to administrators: a. The total amount of base salary; b. The total amount of compensation reportable as gross income under the Internal Revenue Code; c. Any other compensation paid or provided to or on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators; d. Health insurance benefits paid to or on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators; e. Retirement contributions and assessments paid on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators, and including individual shares if paid by the district.relates to compensation of teachers and a school district compensation report; provides contingent payments for declining enrollment and the distribution of differing payment amounts. In addition, bill allows for declining enrollment. f. Any other benefits paid or provided to or on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators. Title: H.B. 1344 Source: North Dakota Legislative Web Site NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Prior to the 1999-2000 school year, funding for schools was based upon current year membership, and a district that had a growth in membership equal to or greater than 1 percent was allocated an additional 0.05 units for each additional student. With the shift to prior year funding beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, new students do not generate grade or other program units the first year in which they are enrolled. In an effort to address the problem, the 1999 General Appropriation Act included language to increase the growth factor form 0.05 to 1.00 for the 1999-2000 school year and the 2000 General Appropriation Act included a categorical appropriation of $2,554.1 to be distributed to districts with a growth rate of greater than 1 percent for the 2000-2001 school year. According to SDE, the bill would provide a more comprehensive method of recognizing membership growth, which had not been permanently addressed when the shift to prior year funding was enacted. Title: H.B. 23 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Modifies provisions relating to the state system of public education in the funding of the Minimum School Program. This act provides a ceiling for the state contribution of the operation and maintenance portion of the Minimum School Program Act not to exceed $1,586,482,794. Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,132, establishes block grants and distribution formulas, and provides a $28,358,000 appropriation for school building aid. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2002/bills/sbillenr/sb0003.htm Title: H.B. 3, S.B. 3 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us NM Vetoed 03/2001 P-12 Relates to public school finance; changes the calculation of the at-risk index to determine additional program units. Title: H.B. 49 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Relates to the Education Protection Funding Program; creates the Growth in Student Population Restricted Account within the Uniform School Fund; allows monies from the account to be used by school districts to address the anticipated surge in student growth; appropriates funds. Title: H.B. 273 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SD Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Revises the distribution of state aid to education. Title: H.B. 1258 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Allows for multiyear accreditation of schools; requires compliance with teacher certification laws to receive multiyear accreditation; provides for accreditation of 7th and 8th grades funded at high school rates. Title: H.B. 103 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Modifies the required dates for the undertaking and completing a reevaluation of the cost based school finance model. Title: H.B. 197 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Relates to school finance; extends application of foundation program dollar per average daily membership amounts. Title: H.B. 4 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Vetoed 11/2000 P-12 Veto No. 51 of 2000., Provides for State aid to an eligible school district based on the assessed valuation in said district. Title: S.B. 7504 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Chapter No.581, Allows a school district that experiences a decline in units of ADA in excess of 5% to elect to receive adjustments to its ADA calculation to ameliorate the effects of the decline in enrollments if the Director of Finance determines that the school district is likely, within 8 years of that decline, to maintain a number of units of ADA that is equivalent to the number of units of ADA maintained by the district. Title: S.B. 376 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Establishes, until 01/01/2002, the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires the Commission to, among other things, develop a proposed method for the reduction or elimination of mandated categorical programs. Title: A.B. 2831 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Vetoed 07/2000 P-12 Provides that certain city school districts shall be eligible for special service aid and computer administration aid not otherwise available to small city school districts. Title: A.B. 5795 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Requires that a certain percentage of the Occupational-Vocational Division II - All Other Costs funds shall be allocated to the school that generates these funds and expended to support the State approved occupational-vocational courses and programs at that school. Title: S.B. 385 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Creates the Task Force on Public School Funding; specifies powers and duties; revises funding for exceptional student education programs; revises provisions relating to instruction outside the required number of school days; revises the exclusion provisions of the computation of district required local effort; requires districts to allocate to each school a specified minimum percentage of the funds generated by the school based on State Education Finance Program. Title: H.B. 701 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Eliminates the future repeal of the school finance formula; provides for periodic legislative review. Title: S.B. 2252 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IA Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Community College Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs. Title: H.B. 2496 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Changes equalization funding up to the 75th percentile instead of the 90th percentile. Equalization funding "may be adjusted" to allow for systems who lose money as a result of the change. Any adjustment shall not be in place for more than five years. Beginning with FY 2002, a midterm adjustment in a local school system's equalization grant shall be made if the system increases its actual millage rate and ranks at or below the 75th percentile. Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education NM Vetoed 02/2000 P-12 Changes the at-risk index for public school finance. Title: H.B. 85 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet