S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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868
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD, AUBRY, FORREST -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certain special
services aid for large city school districts and other school
districts which were not components of a board of cooperative educa-
tional services in the base year
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 educa-
tion 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] NINE 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
budget, an amount for each such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
career education aid ratio by [three] FOUR thousand [nine] THREE hundred
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 cooper-
ative 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] NINE 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] NINE through twelve in career
education sequences in business and marketing as defined by the commis-
sioner in regulations. The career education aid ratio shall be computed
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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by subtracting from one the product obtained by multiplying fifty-nine
percent by the combined wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed
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 school
years commencing on and after July 1, 2023.