What's happening
This bill amends the school district lottery aid formula by updating terminology and incorporating regional cost and pupil need indexes into the calculation.
Why it matters
Reflects true district costs and student needs. By incorporating a regional cost index and a pupil need index, the formula now accounts for differences in local living costs and the varying needs of student populations, potentially making lottery aid more responsive and equitable.
Aligns terminology and calculations with education law. The bill updates references and definitions so that the lottery aid formula is consistent with other education funding laws, reducing confusion and ensuring uniformity across funding streams.
Changes how aid ratios are determined. Instead of using the pupil wealth ratio with fixed limits, the bill switches to using the state sharing ratio for total foundation aid, which may result in different funding outcomes for districts depending on how the new ratio compares to the old method.
Potential redistribution of funds. These changes could shift funding among school districts, potentially increasing aid for districts with higher costs or greater student needs while reducing aid for wealthier or lower-cost districts—impacting local budgets and educational resources.
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Update School Lottery Funding
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STATE OF NEW YORK
285
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, LUPARDO, L. ROSENTHAL -read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to lottery aid formulas for school districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section 92-c of the state finance law, as amended by section 64 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(4) each eligible school district shall be entitled to an additional lottery grant equal to the result of multiplying the district's total aidable foundation pupil units for the base year computed pursuant to paragraph g of subdivision two of section thirty-six hundred two of [this act] the education law by:
Base Grant x regional cost index x pupil need index x (1 + aid ratio)
Where, the base grant shall equal the sum of the net total available moneys after making payments pursuant to subparagraphs [(1), (2), (2-a) and (3) above] one, two, two-a and three of this paragraph, plus an amount from the general support for public schools-- general fund local assistance account equal to the June lottery payment, divided by the total aidable foundation pupil units of the state and where the regional cost index shall be the regional cost index defined in subparagraph two of paragraph a of subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of the education law, and the pupil need index shall be the pupil need index defined in subparagraph three of paragraph a of subdivision four of section thirty-six hundred two of the education law, and the Aid Ratio is equal to one minus [the pupil wealth ratio of the district as such term is defined in section thirty-six hundred two of the education
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03697-01-9
A. 285 2
law. In no case shall a school district aid ratio exceed one (1) or be less than minus one (-1)] the state sharing ratio for total foundation aid as defined in paragraph g of subdivision three of section thirty-six hundred two of the education law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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