Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8700
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 23, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing foundation
aid to school districts located in a high wealth ratio county that
meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch,
English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, and special
education
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3602 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 42 to read as follows:
3 42. Foundation aid to address school district funding inequity.
4 Commencing with aid payable in the two thousand twenty--two thousand
5 twenty-one school year, the commissioner shall increase the amount of
6 foundation aid, at a rate determined by the commissioner, for school
7 districts that all of the following conditions and criteria apply:
8 a. a three-year average free and reduced price lunch percent greater
9 than two-thirds or sixty-seven percent (0.67);
10 b. an English language learner count that totals above thirteen
11 percent (0.13) of the entire school district population;
12 c. a combined wealth ratio greater than seven-tenths (0.7);
13 d. an increase in enrollment of at least two percent (0.02) since the
14 two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year; and
15 e. a special education count that totals above eight percent (0.08) of
16 the entire school district population.
17 Nothing in this subdivision shall reduce the amount of foundation aid
18 to any school district in which this subdivision's conditions and crite-
19 ria do not apply.
20 § 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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