What's happening
This bill changes school aid calculations to provide funding for new high cost students with disabilities who move into a district during the school year.
Why it matters
Provides immediate funding support. for districts that unexpectedly enroll high cost students with disabilities during the school year, helping them address significant, unplanned expenses.
Links aid to current-year costs and attendance. for these new students, rather than basing it on the prior year, allowing districts to better match state funding to actual needs as they arise.
Specifically covers students transferring with established individualized education programs (IEPs). from other districts, ensuring continuity of appropriate educational services and reducing financial disincentives for accepting such students.
Targets aid to those requiring placement in approved private special education programs. , which are typically among the most expensive placements, helping districts manage spikes in special education costs without impacting other educational services.
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Who cares
School districts receiving high-cost students with disabilities
The bill would provide current-year aid for current-year expenses when students move into a district during the school year with an individualized education program from another district.
District special education administrators
Beginning in 2018–2019, the bill would base aid for qualifying incoming students requiring approved private special education programs on current-year excess costs and attendance rather than base-year figures.
Families of students with disabilities transferring districts
The bill would change aid calculations for receiving districts serving students who arrive during the school year with an individualized education program from another district.
Headline styles
Fund High-Need Disabled Students
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Print number 7146a
- Amend and recommit to education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Aid for Disabled New Students
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Catharine Young
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7146--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the distribution of aid for high cost students with disabilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 3609-b of the education law is amended by adding a new third undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
For aid payable in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall mean current year aid provided for current year expenses for new high cost students with disabilities that move into the district during the school year with an individualized education program from a committee on special education of another school district.
§ 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 4405 of the education law, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
c. The apportionments to each school district pursuant to this subdivision shall be based on excess cost paid and attendance during the base year except, beginning in the two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen school year and thereafter, "moneys apportioned" shall be based on excess cost paid and attendance during the current year for new students with disabilities that move into the district during the school year with an individualized education program from a committee on special education of another school district requiring attendance at approved private special education programs.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06228-03-8
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