Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2954
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to supplemental educa-
tional improvement plan grants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws
3 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be paid seventeen
5 million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) multiplied by such
6 district's regional cost index, pursuant to subparagraph two of para-
7 graph a of subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of this
8 article, on an annual basis. Such grant shall be payable from funds
9 appropriated for such purpose and shall be apportioned to the Yonkers
10 city school district in accordance with the payment schedules contained
11 in section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding
12 any provision of law to the contrary.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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