Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-533-R1

Redraft EDU 533

Extraordinary Special Education Costs

Mr. Brownsberger moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7061-0011, moved that the bill be amended, in section 2, in item 7061-0011, by striking out the words “and (ii)” and inserting in place thereof the following word:- “(ii)”; and

in said section 2, in said item 7061-0011, by inserting after the words “regional school district” the following words:-  “; (iii) provide extraordinary relief to school districts whose special education costs exceed 30 per cent of total district costs and whose tuition and other circuit-breaker eligible costs for placements at an approved private school located within the district exceed both $1,000,000 and 25 per cent of all tuition and other circuit-breaker eligible costs for placements at approved private schools; and (iv) mitigate costs for districts that: (1) experience foundation enrollment growth of greater than 200 pupils from fiscal year 2014 to fiscal year 2015; and (2) whose chapter 70 as a percentage of total foundation budget is less than the district’s target aid percentage; provided further, that not less than $350,000 shall be expended for the purposes of clause (iii); provided further, that not less than $1,000,000 shall be expended for the purposes of clause (iv)”; and

in said section 2, in said item 7061-0011, by striking out the words “under clause (ii)” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “under clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv)”