How HB 54 changes current law

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This Act establishes an optional mid-year unit count for school districts and charter schools in Delaware, allowing them to receive additional state funding based on unit growth after the standard count.

• Chapter 17, Title 14

  § 1704A Optional mid-year unit count.

  Creates a new section for an optional mid-year unit count.

• § 1704A

  (a) The Department of Education shall conduct an “optional mid-year unit count” on the last day of January for all school districts and charter schools.

  Mandates an optional mid-year unit count on January 31 for all districts and schools.

• § 1704A

  (b) The Department of Education shall annually (after January 31) certify and report the “optional mid-year unit count” as required in § 1710 of this title.

  Requires annual certification and reporting of the mid-year unit count by the Department of Education.

• § 1704A

  (c) School districts and charter schools that elect to participate in the optional mid-year unit count shall receive state financial support for each additional unit, or fraction thereof, in an amount determined by the annual Appropriations Act.

  Provides financial support to participating schools based on additional units counted mid-year.

• § 1704A

  (d) Funding associated with the additional units generated by the optional mid-year unit count shall be utilized only in schools which experienced unit growth between the last school day in September and the last school day in January.

  Restricts the use of funding from additional units to schools that experienced actual growth.

• § 1710

  § 1710. Certification of number of units by Secretary of Education. ---The number of units in each school district as calculated under § 1704 → § 1710. Certification of number of units by Secretary of Education. ---The number of units in each school district as calculated under § 1704 and § 1704A of this title shall be certified by the Secretary of Education as soon as such calculations are completed.

  Updates existing law to include units calculated from the new mid-year count.