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Authorizes school districts to utilize funding subject to contract for excellence requirements in subsequent school years
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Addie Jenne
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts to utilize funding subject to contract for excellence requirements in subsequent school years
Purpose of bill
This bill allows a school district, required to submit a contract for excellence, that is unable to use a portion of the funds dedicated to the district because the contract for excellence was not approved by the commissioner of education until after the start of the school year, to utilize those contract for excellence funds during the next two succeeding school years.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 - Amends paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 211-d of the education law by adding a new subparagraph (vii) which allows, beginning with the 2007 - 2008 school year, a school district required to submit a contract for excellence, that is unable to use a portion of the funds dedicated to the district because the contract for excellence was not approved by the commissioner of education until after the start of the school year, to utilize those contract for excellence funds during the next two succeeding school years.
Section 2 - Enacting clause.
Justification
School districts were advised that contract for excellence plans were not to be implemented until final approval for those plans was issued by the commissioner of education. In some instances that approval did not come until well after the start of the 2007 - 2008 school year. School districts that followed the advice of the department of education delayed starting programs and hiring staff until the contract for excellence plans were approved.
Under current law school districts cannot carryover any unspent contract for excellence funding into the following school year. Therefore, delayed approval of the plans resulted in unspent money that cannot be carried over to support existing programs.
Legislative history
S.8567, 2008
Fiscal implications
None to State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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