HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2161        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 497

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to establish a school choice circuit breaker..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 12B of Chapter 76 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2003 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (o) the following subsection:–

 (p) Any sending district which experiences a net loss of more than 5% of its student population in a given grade or a net loss of more than 10% of its total student population from the prior year due to school choice, shall also be eligible to apply for a school choice reimbursement from the commonwealth as provided in subsection (n) . The reimbursement amount shall be equal to 50 percent of the school choice tuition amount for each student enrolling in a receiving district in excess of 5% of the total population in a given grade during the prior year for the sending district or in excess of 10% of the total population during the prior year in the sending district.