SB 199: "An Act relating to the vocational and technical instruction funding factor for public school funding."
00 SENATE BILL NO. 199 01 "An Act relating to the vocational and technical instruction funding factor for public 02 school funding." 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 secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding [HIGH 05 SCHOOL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION] factor set out in 06 AS 14.17.420(a)(3); 07 (D) the number obtained for intensive services under 08 AS 14.17.420(a)(2) and the number obtained for correspondence study under 09 AS 14.17.430 are added to the number obtained under (C) of this paragraph; 10 (E) notwithstanding (A) - (C) of this paragraph, if a school 11 district's ADM adjusted for school size under (A) of this paragraph decreases 12 by five percent or more from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year, the school 13 district may use the last fiscal year before the decrease as a base fiscal year to 14 offset the decrease, according to the following method: 15 (i) for the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year 16 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 17 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 18 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 75 percent of the 19 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 20 base fiscal year and the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 21 (ii) for the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year 22 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 23 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 24 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 50 percent of the 25 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 26 base fiscal year and the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 27 (iii) for the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year 28 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 29 for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 30 the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 25 percent of the 31 difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the
01 base fiscal year and the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 02 (F) the method established in (E) of this paragraph is available 03 to a school district for the three fiscal years following the base fiscal year 04 determined under (E) of this paragraph only if the district's ADM adjusted for 05 school size determined under (A) of this paragraph for each fiscal year is less 06 than the district's ADM adjusted for school size in the base fiscal year; 07 (G) the method established in (E) of this paragraph does not 08 apply to a decrease in the district's ADM adjusted for school size resulting 09 from a loss of enrollment that occurs as a result of a boundary change under 10 AS 29; 11 (2) the required local contribution of a city or borough school district is 12 the equivalent of a four mill tax levy on the full and true value of the taxable real and 13 personal property in the district as of January 1 of the second preceding fiscal year, as 14 determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic 15 Development under AS 14.17.510 and AS 29.45.110, not to exceed 45 percent of a 16 district's basic need for the preceding fiscal year as determined under (1) of this 17 subsection. 18 * Sec. 2. AS 14.17.420(a) is amended to read: 19 (a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special 20 needs and secondary [HIGH] school vocational and technical instruction funding and 21 may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows: 22 (1) special needs funding is available to a district to assist the district 23 in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, 24 and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.20 25 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1); 26 (2) in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is 27 eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding 28 for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is 29 enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services 30 funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by 13; 31 (3) in addition to the special needs and intensive services funding
01 available under (1) and (2) of this subsection, secondary [HIGH] school vocational 02 and technical instruction funding is available to assist districts in providing vocational 03 and technical instruction to students who are enrolled in a secondary school; a 04 secondary [GRADES NINE THROUGH 12; A HIGH] school vocational and 05 technical instruction funding factor of 1.01 shall be applied as set out in 06 AS 14.17.410(b)(1); in this paragraph, "vocational and technical instruction" excludes 07 costs associated with 08 (A) administrative expenses; and 09 (B) instruction in general literacy, mathematics, and job 10 readiness skills. 11 * Sec. 3. AS 14.17.440(a) is amended to read: 12 (a) Except as provided in AS 14.17.400(b), funding for state boarding schools 13 established under AS 14.16.010 includes an allocation from the public education fund 14 in an amount calculated by 15 (1) determining the ADM of state boarding schools by applying the 16 school size factor to the student count as described in AS 14.17.450; 17 (2) multiplying the number obtained under (1) of this subsection by the 18 special needs factor in AS 14.17.420(a)(1) and the secondary school vocational and 19 technical instruction funding [HIGH SCHOOL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION] 20 factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(3) and multiplying that product by the base student 21 allocation; and 22 (3) multiplying the product determined under (2) of this subsection by 23 the district cost factor that is applicable to calculation of the state aid for the adjacent 24 school district under AS 14.17.460.