What's happening
This bill changes how school district wealth is calculated by excluding the top and bottom 0.5% of income earners from adjusted gross income figures.
Why it matters
Aims to provide a more accurate measure of typical community wealth. by removing the highest and lowest 0.5% of income earners from a school district’s adjusted gross income, potentially preventing outlier incomes from distorting funding formulas.
Could impact state aid distribution. by recalibrating the “alternative pupil wealth ratio” and “combined wealth ratio,” which are key in determining how much financial support each school district receives.
May benefit districts with extreme income disparities. (such as those with a small number of very wealthy or very poor taxpayers), leading to state aid calculations that better reflect the financial realities of most residents.
Could shift resources among districts. by changing which communities are classified as “wealthy” or “poor” for aid purposes, possibly increasing funds for some districts and reducing them for others, based on the new calculation method.
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Exclude Outliers from School Income
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- Referred to education
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Remove Outliers From Income Calculations
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
S. 4471 A. 5756
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
February 15, 2017
IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to school district adjusted gross income for purposes of determining the alternative pupil wealth ratio and combined wealth ratio
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 3602 of the education law, as amended by section 13 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Alternate pupil wealth ratio" shall mean the number computed to three decimals without rounding obtained when the adjusted gross income of a school district for the calendar year two years prior to the calendar year in which the base year began divided by the total wealth pupil units of such district is divided by the statewide adjusted gross income per total wealth pupil unit. Such statewide average gross income per pupil shall be established each year by the commissioner and shall be transmitted to school districts. Such statewide average shall be rounded to the nearest hundredth and shall include the adjusted gross income and total wealth pupil units of all school districts eligible for aid pursuant to this section except central high school districts. For the purposes of calculating such statewide average the data for the city school district of the city of New York shall be citywide data. The calculation of the adjusted gross income of a school district shall not include the adjusted gross income of the one-half of one percent of the taxpayers in such school district who have the greatest adjusted gross incomes, and shall not include the adjusted gross income of the one-half of one percent of the taxpayers in such school district who have the lowest adjusted gross incomes.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03533-01-7
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