Senate Bill S2665

                            
 
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                                   2665
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to an increase in aid for
   career education
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.    Paragraph  b  of  subdivision 10 of section 3602 of the
 education law, as amended by section 16 of part B of chapter 57  of  the
 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Aid  for career education. There shall be apportioned to such city
 school districts and other school districts which were not components of
 a board of cooperative educational services in the base year for  pupils
 in  grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education programs
 as such programs are  defined  by  the  commissioner,  subject  for  the
 purposes  of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the budg-
 et, an amount for each such pupil to  be  computed  by  multiplying  the
 career  education  aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred] FOUR THOU-
 SAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE dollars.  Such aid will be  payable  for
 weighted  pupils  attending  career  education  programs operated by the
 school district and for weighted pupils for whom  such  school  district
 contracts  with  boards  of  cooperative  educational services to attend
 career education programs operated by a board of cooperative educational
 services. Weighted pupils for the purposes of this paragraph shall  mean
 the  sum  of  the attendance of students in grades ten through twelve in
 career education sequences in trade, industrial, technical, agricultural
 or health programs plus the product of sixteen hundredths multiplied  by
 the attendance of students in grades ten through twelve in career educa-
 tion  sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commissioner
 in regulations. The career education aid  ratio  shall  be  computed  by
 subtracting  from  one  the  product  obtained by multiplying fifty-nine
 percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be  expressed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 as a decimal carried to three places without rounding, but not less than
 thirty-six percent.
   Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
 be  required  to use such amount to support career education programs in
 the current year.
   A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
 by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
 during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
 sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current  or  a
 succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
 such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
 support  of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
 or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in  the
 preceding school year.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the aid
 for  career  education  payable  in  the 2021-2022 school year and years
 thereafter.