Bill Text: NY A08700 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A08700 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08700-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8700

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing foundation
          aid to school districts located in a high  wealth  ratio  county  that
          meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch,
          English  language  learners,  wealth  ratio,  enrollment,  and special
          education

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  3602 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 42 to read as follows:
     3    42. Foundation  aid  to  address  school  district  funding  inequity.
     4  Commencing  with  aid  payable  in the two thousand twenty--two thousand
     5  twenty-one school year, the commissioner shall increase  the  amount  of
     6  foundation  aid,  at  a  rate determined by the commissioner, for school
     7  districts that all of the following conditions and criteria apply:
     8    a. a three-year average free and reduced price lunch  percent  greater
     9  than two-thirds or sixty-seven percent (0.67);
    10    b.  an  English  language  learner  count  that  totals above thirteen
    11  percent (0.13) of the entire school district population;
    12    c. a combined wealth ratio greater than seven-tenths (0.7);
    13    d. an increase in enrollment of at least two percent (0.02) since  the
    14  two thousand thirteen--two thousand fourteen school year; and
    15    e. a special education count that totals above eight percent (0.08) of
    16  the entire school district population.
    17    Nothing  in this subdivision shall reduce the amount of foundation aid
    18  to any school district in which this subdivision's conditions and crite-
    19  ria do not apply.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13488-05-9