5012-S AMS MCAU S2398.1

SSB 5012 - S AMD TO S AMD (S-2331.2/03) 114

By Senator McAuliffe

NOT ADOPTED 03/12/2003

On page 10, after line 28 of the amendment, insert the following:

"(5)(a) School districts that experience an enrollment decline during the 2003-04 school year due to students leaving the school district to attend a charter school shall receive funding for those students on a per student basis in the amounts that the school district would have received if the students were enrolled in a noncharter public school in the school district. Funding for the enrollment decline shall include regular apportionment, categorical, and nonbasic education funds, as appropriate, and shall be based on enrollment and other financial information submitted by the charter school to the school district as is required to determine the appropriate state apportionment amounts.

(b) School districts that experience an enrollment decline during the 2004-05 school year due to students leaving the school district to attend a charter school shall receive sixty percent of the funding for those students on a per student basis in the amounts that the school district would have received if the students were enrolled in a noncharter public school in the school district. Funding for the enrollment decline shall include regular apportionment, categorical, and nonbasic education funds, as appropriate, and shall be based on enrollment and other financial information submitted by the charter school to the school district as is required to determine the appropriate state apportionment amounts.

(c) School districts that experience an enrollment decline during the 2005-06 school year due to students leaving the school district to attend a charter school shall receive forty percent of the funding for those students on a per student basis in the amounts that the school district would have received if the students were enrolled in a noncharter public school in the school district. Funding for the enrollment decline shall include regular apportionment, categorical, and nonbasic education funds, as appropriate, and shall be based on enrollment and other financial information submitted by the charter school to the school district as is required to determine the appropriate state apportionment amounts."

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