STATE OF NEW YORK
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3843--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed by
2 subtracting from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine
3 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed
4 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than
5 thirty-six percent.
6 Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
7 be required to use such amount to support career education programs in
8 the current year.
9 A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
10 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
11 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
12 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current or a
13 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
14 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
15 support of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
16 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in the
17 preceding school year.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the aid
19 for career education payable in the 2018-2019 school year and years
20 thereafter.
