What's happening
This bill increases annual supplemental education funds for the Yonkers city school district based on enrollment growth and foundation aid calculations.
Why it matters
Links school funding directly to enrollment growth. By tying additional funds to percentage increases in student enrollment, the bill ensures that Yonkers receives more resources as its student population grows, helping to address the challenges of expanding class sizes and resource needs.
Uses foundation aid as a multiplier. The calculation for extra funds is based on the district’s foundation aid, which is designed to reflect the basic costs of educating each student; this approach aims to make the funding increase more responsive and equitable.
Exempts Yonkers from certain funding restrictions. The new increase in aid will not be subject to the limitations of section 211-d, potentially allowing Yonkers more flexibility in how it uses its supplemental education improvement funds compared to other districts.
Could set a precedent for other districts. If successful, this targeted, enrollment-based approach to supplemental funding might be considered for other growing school districts seeking fairer state support.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1744
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing the Yonkers city school district with additional supplemental education improvement plan funds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 8 of section 3641 of the education law, as amended by section 29 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
b. To the Yonkers city school district there shall be paid seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000) on an annual basis plus an amount equivalent to the percentage increase, carried to four decimals, in the Yonkers city school district public enrollment pursuant to foundation aid under subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of this article from the two thousand ten--two thousand eleven school year to the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year multiplied by the district's foundation aid amount. Such increase shall not be subject to section two hundred eleven-d of this chapter. Such grant shall be payable from funds appropriated for such purpose and shall be apportioned to the Yonkers city school district in accordance with the payment schedules contained in section thirty-six hundred nine-a of this article, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary.
§ 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04230-01-7
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