STATE OF NEW YORK
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1229
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 an increase in aid for
career education
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 10 of section 3602 of the
2 education law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city
5 school districts and other school districts which were not components of
6 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils
7 in grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education programs
8 as such programs are defined by the commissioner, subject for the
9 purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the budg-
10 et, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
11 career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred] four thou-
12 sand eight hundred seventy-five dollars. Such aid will be payable for
13 weighted pupils attending career education programs operated by the
14 school district and for weighted pupils for whom such school district
15 contracts with boards of cooperative educational services to attend
16 career education programs operated by a board of cooperative educational
17 services. Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall mean
18 the sum of the attendance of students in grades ten through twelve in
19 career education sequences in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural
20 or health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied by
21 the attendance of students in grades ten through twelve in career educa-
22 tion sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commissioner
23 in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed by
24 subtracting from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine
25 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than
2 thirty-six percent.
3 Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
4 be required to use such amount to support career education programs in
5 the current year.
6 A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
7 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
8 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
9 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a
10 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
11 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
12 support of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
13 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the
14 preceding school year.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the aid
16 for career education payable in the 2019-2020 school year and years
17 thereafter.
