Defines need-resource capacity; and authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to examine current wealth and student need factors used to calculate foundation aid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6435
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to defining need-resource
capacity; and in relation to authorizing and directing the commission-
er of education to examine current wealth and student need factors
used to calculate foundation aid
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3602 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph hh to read as follows:
3 hh. "Need-resource capacity" as determined pursuant to clause (c) of
4 subparagraph two of paragraph c of subdivision six of this section for
5 the school aid computer listing produced by the commissioner in support
6 of the enacted budget for the two thousand seven--two thousand eight
7 school year and entitled "SA0708", shall mean an index developed by the
8 commissioner used to categorize school districts into similar school
9 districts. Such index shall be updated on an annual basis by the
10 commissioner. Further, if such index is used for school district allo-
11 cation purposes, such index must be updated annually and used in a
12 school aid computer listing in support of an enacted budget.
13 § 2. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized and directed
14 to examine the current wealth and student need factors used to calculate
15 foundation aid under section 3602 of the education law and prepare a
16 report of recommendations that would ensure a more accurate represen-
17 tation of district and student need for use in such education aid formu-
18 la. Provided further, in developing such recommendations, the commis-
19 sioner of education shall examine other reliable measures of district
20 need and student poverty. The report shall be submitted to the director
21 of the budget, the chairs of the senate finance committee, the assembly
22 ways and means committee, the senate education committee, and the assem-
23 bly education committee on or before October 1, 2019.
24 § 3. 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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