What's happening
This bill increases annual supplemental funding for Yonkers schools based on enrollment growth.
Why it matters
Local funding boost. Adds to Yonkers’ existing $17.5 million annual supplemental grant, with payments dependent on appropriated funds.
Enrollment-based formula. Calculates the addition by multiplying enrollment percentage growth from 2010–11 to 2019–20 by the district’s foundation aid amount.
Different requirements. Exempts the increase from Education Law Section 211-d and would take effect July 1, 2020.
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Who cares
Yonkers school district administrators
The bill would increase annual supplemental funding using an enrollment-based formula.
Yonkers students and families
Their district would receive additional school funding, though the bill does not specify how it must be spent.
State education and budget officials
They would need to account for the additional grant amount and payments from appropriated funds.
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Increase Yonkers School Funding
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History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3099
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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 nineteen--two thousand twenty 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, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04716-01-9
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