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Senate Bill S6888

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to payments made by school districts to charter schools

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2019-S6888 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2856, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S921
2023-2024: S1252
2025-2026: S4390

2019-S6888 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to payments made by school districts to charter schools.

2019-S6888 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6888 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6888
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 6, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  payments  made  by
   school districts to charter schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  2856  of  the
 education  law, as amended by section 4 of part YYY of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) The school district shall also pay directly to the charter  school
 any  federal  or  state  aid attributable to a student with a disability
 attending charter school in proportion to the level of services for such
 student with a disability that the charter school provides  directly  or
 indirectly.  Notwithstanding  anything  in this section to the contrary,
 amounts payable pursuant to this subdivision from state or  local  funds
 may be reduced pursuant to an agreement between the school and the char-
 ter  entity  set  forth  in  the charter. Payments made pursuant to this
 subdivision shall be made by the school district [in  six  substantially
 equal installments each year beginning on the first business day of July
 and  every  two  months thereafter] EACH QUARTER, AT THE TIME AND IN THE
 SAME PROPORTION THE SCHOOL DISTRICT  RECEIVES  ITS  STATE  AID.  Amounts
 payable  under this subdivision shall be determined by the commissioner.
 Amounts payable to a charter school in its first year of operation shall
 be based on the projections of initial-year enrollment set forth in  the
 charter  until actual enrollment data is reported to the school district
 by the charter school. Such projections shall  be  reconciled  with  the
 actual  enrollment  as  actual enrollment data is so reported and at the
 end of the school's first year of operation  and  each  subsequent  year
 based  on a final report of actual enrollment by the charter school, and
 any necessary adjustments resulting from such final report shall be made
 to payments during the school's following year of operation.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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