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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 257.13 ASSISTED SCHOOL
1 2 DISTRICTS.
1 3 1. An assisted school district is a school district that
1 4 has one or more elementary school attendance centers in which
1 5 at least fifty percent of the students enrolled in an
1 6 attendance center or centers qualify for free or reduced price
1 7 lunches. By October 1 of each budget year, a school district
1 8 that determines it is an assisted school district under this
1 9 section shall annually certify to the department of education
1 10 its eligibility to receive funds under this section.
1 11 2. In order to provide funds for limiting class size,
1 12 reducing student-teacher ratios, and the employment of
1 13 additional teacher's aides in an assisted school district, an
1 14 assisted school district weighting plan for determining
1 15 enrollment in each assisted school district is adopted as
1 16 follows:
1 17 a. Pupils in a nonassisted school district are assigned a
1 18 weighting of one.
1 19 b. Pupils in an assisted school district enrolled in an
1 20 attendance center in which at least fifty percent of the
1 21 students qualify for free or reduced price lunches are
1 22 assigned a weighting of one and one-tenth for the school year
1 23 commencing July 1, 1996.
1 24 3. An assisted school district fund shall be established
1 25 by each assisted school district. The amount of additional
1 26 moneys received by an assisted school district from the
1 27 department of revenue and finance as a result of the assisted
1 28 school district supplementary weighting shall be allocated
1 29 within the assisted school district to each qualifying
1 30 elementary school attendance center. A qualifying elementary
1 31 school attendance center has at least fifty percent of its
1 32 students qualifying for free and reduced price lunches. Fund
1 33 distributions shall be based on the proportion that the number
1 34 of pupils enrolled in the qualifying elementary school
1 35 attendance center entitled to free and reduced price lunches
2 1 bears to the sum of all students in the assisted school
2 2 district qualifying for free and reduced price lunches.
2 3 Moneys received pursuant to this section shall supplement
2 4 other funds available for these purposes and shall not be used
2 5 to replace those funds. Notwithstanding section 8.33, any
2 6 balance in an assisted school district fund remaining on June
2 7 30 of any fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of
2 8 the state but shall remain available for expenditure in the
2 9 succeeding fiscal year.
2 10 Sec. 2. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance,
2 11 takes effect upon enactment for the school budget year
2 12 beginning July 1, 1996.
2 13 EXPLANATION
2 14 This bill provides for the supplementary weighting of
2 15 students attending school in an assisted school district.
2 16 The bill defines an assisted school district as a school
2 17 district in which at least one elementary school attendance
2 18 center that has at least 50 percent of its students qualifying
2 19 for free or reduced price lunches exists. Students in
2 20 nonassisted school districts are assigned a weighting of one.
2 21 Students in an assisted school district enrolled in an
2 22 attendance center in which at least fifty percent of the
2 23 students qualify for free or reduced price lunches are
2 24 assigned a weighting of one and one-tenth.
2 25 An assisted school district fund is established within each
2 26 assisted school district into which the additional funds
2 27 resulting from the supplementary weighting will be placed.
2 28 The funds will be distributed to elementary school attendance
2 29 centers within the district based on the proportion that the
2 30 students qualifying for free and reduced price lunches in an
2 31 elementary school attendance center bears to all students
2 32 attending elementary school attendance centers qualifying for
2 33 free and reduced price lunches in the assisted school
2 34 district. The funds will be used to limit class size, reduce
2 35 student-teacher ratios, and employ additional teacher's aides.
3 1 Funds received due to supplementary weighting shall
3 2 supplement other funds available, and shall not revert to the
3 3 general fund of the state at the conclusion of a fiscal year.
3 4 The bill provides for an immediate effective date upon
3 5 enactment for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1996.
3 6 LSB 3095HH 76
3 7 rn/sc/14
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