SB 169: "An Act providing for education funding for distance delivery courses offered by a school district."
00 SENATE BILL NO. 169 01 "An Act providing for education funding for distance delivery courses offered by a 02 school district." 03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. AS 14.17.410(b) is amended to read: 05 (b) Public school funding consists of state aid, a required local contribution, 06 and eligible federal impact aid determined as follows: 07 (1) state aid equals basic need minus a required local contribution and 08 90 percent of eligible federal impact aid for that fiscal year; basic need equals the sum 09 obtained under (D) of this paragraph, multiplied by the base student allocation set out 10 in AS 14.17.470; district adjusted ADM is calculated as follows: 11 (A) the ADM of each school in the district is calculated by 12 applying the school size factor to the student count as set out in AS 14.17.450; 13 (B) the number obtained under (A) of this paragraph is 14 multiplied by the district cost factor described in AS 14.17.460;
01 (C) the ADMs of each school in a district, as adjusted 02 according to (A) and (B) of this paragraph, are added; the sum is then 03 multiplied by the special needs factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(1) and the 04 high school vocational education factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(3); 05 (D) the number obtained for intensive services under 06 AS 14.17.420(a)(2), the number obtained for distance delivery courses 07 under AS 14.17.422, and the number obtained for correspondence study under 08 AS 14.17.430 are added to the number obtained under (C) of this paragraph; 09 (E) notwithstanding (A) - (C) of this paragraph, if a school 10 district's ADM adjusted for school size under (A) of this paragraph decreases 11 by five percent or more from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year, the school 12 district may use the last fiscal year before the decrease as a base fiscal year to 13 offset the decrease, according to the following method: 14 (i) for the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year 15 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 16 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 17 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 75 percent of the 18 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 19 base fiscal year and the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 20 (ii) for the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year 21 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 22 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 23 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 50 percent of the 24 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 25 base fiscal year and the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 26 (iii) for the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year 27 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 28 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 29 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 25 percent of the 30 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 31 base fiscal year and the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year;
01 (F) the method established in (E) of this paragraph is available 02 to a school district for the three fiscal years following the base fiscal year 03 determined under (E) of this paragraph only if the district's ADM adjusted for 04 school size determined under (A) of this paragraph for each fiscal year is less 05 than the district's ADM adjusted for school size in the base fiscal year; 06 (G) the method established in (E) of this paragraph does not 07 apply to a decrease in the district's ADM adjusted for school size resulting 08 from a loss of enrollment that occurs as a result of a boundary change under 09 AS 29; 10 (2) the required local contribution of a city or borough school district is 11 the equivalent of a four mill tax levy on the full and true value of the taxable real and 12 personal property in the district as of January 1 of the second preceding fiscal year, as 13 determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic 14 Development under AS 14.17.510 and AS 29.45.110, not to exceed 45 percent of a 15 district's basic need for the preceding fiscal year as determined under (1) of this 16 subsection. 17 * Sec. 2. AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read: 18 Sec. 14.17.422. Distance delivery funding. (a) As a component of public 19 school funding, a district is eligible for distance delivery funding in the amount 20 obtained by multiplying a factor of 0.5 by the number of students who enroll in one or 21 more courses by distance delivery if 22 (1) the course is part of the core academic curriculum required for 23 eligibility for a scholarship under AS 14.43.820; 24 (2) the district provides the course to the student only by distance 25 delivery; and 26 (3) an accredited public postsecondary institution located in the state 27 provides the course. 28 (b) In this section, "distance delivery" means an online course that is taught in 29 a central location and simultaneously relayed by technologic means to one or more 30 distant locations.