S 1096 — EDUCATION – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding student funding and to provide for weighted per-student funding.

10961096, As Amended BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION;

For each school district or public charter school, the weighted amounts for student characteristics shall be based on the average of the three (3) highest student full-time equivalent enroll - ment counts for verified students reported pursuant to section 33-1027, Idaho Code.

(iii) For special education students, the base amount per student multiplied by one and one-halfthree (1.5);quarters (1.75);

(iv) For students attending a school district or public charter school with less than sixone thousand two hundred (600)(1,200) average daily attendance, except for students in a virtual program, one (1) minus the baseresult amountof perthe studentaverage daily attendance for that school district or public charter school multiplied by threethe quartersresult (.75);of one (1) divided by one thousand two hundred (1,200), the result of which shall be multiplied by the base amount per student;

COMPUTATION OF KINDERGARTEN SUPPORT UNITS Average Daily Attendance Attendance Divisor Units Allowed 41 or more....

Attendance Divisor Units Allowed 40......................

count as elementary -.......................

count as elementary COMPUTATION OF ELEMENTARY SUPPORT UNITS Average Daily Minimum Units Attendance Attendance Divisor Allowed 300 or more ADA.......

Grades 7 - 12 ..................................8 Grades 9 - 12 ..................................6 Grades 7 - 9 1 per 14 ADA ..................................

1 per 14 ADA Grades 7 - 8 ..................................

Divide educational support program distribution funds, after subtracting the amounts necessary to pay the obligations specified in subsection (2) of this section, by the total state support units to secure the state distribution factor per supsup- - port unit.

The state department of education shall, before the end of each fiscal year, calculate the actual discretionary funding available per support unit student as determined by the weighted per-student funding formulaformula. .

(1) (4) If the total estimated discretionary funding per support unit student as determined by the weighted per-student funding formula stated in the appropriation for the educational support program/division of opera-opera - tions is lower than the actual discretionary funding available per support unit student as determined by the weighted per-student funding formula, then the state controller shall multiply the difference by the number of actual support units, and transfer the result from the public school income fund to the public education stabilization fund and the final distributions to school districts from the department of education shall be reduced by a like amount .

The cost of activities provided for in this section shall be paid by the state department of education from mon-mon - eys appropriated for this program in the educational support program budget as provided for in section 33-1002, Idaho Code.