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- Print number 4988b
- Amend and recommit to education
- Print number 4988a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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Relates to the computation of foundation aid and successful schools aid for small city school districts
In Assembly Committee · Education · Sponsor Anthony Brindisi
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to the computation of foundation aid and successful schools aid for small city school districts
Purpose
To amend computation of foundation aid and successful schools aid in small city school districts sufficient to insure funding of a meaningful high school education.
Summary of provisions
To add small city successful schools aid for the following uses:
a) Class size reduction b) Academic intervention services c) Response to intervention services d) Dropout prevention e) Incarcerated youth services f) Parent involvement programs, g) Extended day and extended year programs, and h) Psycho-social testing.
To amend computation of foundation aid to add a small city poverty concentration count and lower the income wealth index.
Justification
Small city school districts face unprecedented educational and fiscal challenges. These challenges have threatened the capacity of many districts to provide a meaningful high school education as required by the state constitution. Current provisions in the foundation aid formula do not deliver the aid to all districts necessary to enable them to meet this requirement fully. Moreover, current education aid does not adequately compensate for the burdens facing these districts from the high concentration of poverty in the cities. These districts serve as centers providing not only educational services but also health, civic and public safety uses. These services and uses cause an overburden which is not adequately supported by existing education aid.
The state constitution requires and promises that a meaningful high school education be provided to all children wherever they reside and whatever school district they attend. This bill would make it possible to fulfill that promise.
Legislative history
2015 - Education Committee.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
Immediate.
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