Bill Text: NY A00103 | 2023-2024 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A00103 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00103-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           103

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SAYEGH, FORREST -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to increasing  foundation
          aid  to  school  districts  located in a high wealth ratio county that
          meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch,
          English language  learners,  wealth  ratio,  enrollment,  and  special
          education

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "School aid
     2  equity act".
     3    § 2. Section 3602 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision 42 to read as follows:
     5    42.  Foundation  aid  to  address  school  district  funding inequity.
     6  Commencing with aid payable in the two thousand  twenty-four--two  thou-
     7  sand twenty-five school year, the commissioner shall increase the amount
     8  of  foundation aid, at a rate determined by the commissioner, for school
     9  districts that all of the following conditions and criteria apply:
    10    a. a three-year average free and reduced price lunch  percent  greater
    11  than two-thirds or sixty-seven percent (0.67);
    12    b.  an  English  language  learner  count  that  totals above thirteen
    13  percent (0.13) of the entire school district population;
    14    c. a combined wealth ratio greater than seven-tenths (0.7);
    15    d. an increase in enrollment of at least two percent (0.02) since  the
    16  two thousand fifteen--two thousand sixteen school year; and
    17    e. a special education count that totals above eight percent (0.08) of
    18  the entire school district population.
    19    Nothing  in this subdivision shall reduce the amount of foundation aid
    20  to any school district in which this subdivision's conditions and crite-
    21  ria do not apply.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01645-01-3