Bill Text: NY S07624 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-31 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07624 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07624-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7624                                                  A. 9651

                SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2020
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, PALUMBO -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing  foundation
          aid

          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 half or fifty percent (0.5);
    10    b. an English  language  learner  count  that  totals  above  thirteen
    11  percent (0.13) of the entire school district population;
    12    c.  receive  less than fifty-five percent (0.55) of the foundation aid
    13  amount the school district would have received during the  two  thousand
    14  nineteen--two  thousand twenty state fiscal year had foundation aid been
    15  fully funded during such fiscal year;
    16    d. an increase in enrollment of at least two percent (0.02) since  the
    17  two thousand eight--two thousand nine school year; and
    18    e. a special education count that totals above eight percent (0.08) of
    19  the entire school district population.
    20    Nothing  in this subdivision shall reduce the amount of foundation aid
    21  to any school district in which this subdivision's conditions and crite-
    22  ria do not apply.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14849-02-0