§ 16-1607.1. Distressed school districts and student attendance in other districts
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 24 P.S. EducationEffective: July 20, 2007
Effective: July 20, 2007
24 P.S. § 16-1607.1
§ 16-1607.1. Distressed school districts and student attendance in other districts
(a) If a third class school district in which a public high school is not maintained operates and, for at least five consecutive years, has operated under a special board of control under section 692,1 has been placed on the education empowerment list under section 1703-B,2 has, with the approval of the secretary, curtailed its educational program by eliminating its high school and has not assigned its high school pupils to another school district or school districts and provided adequate transportation in a manner pursuant to section 1607,3 the secretary shall have the following authority:
(1) To designate two or more school districts that shall accept on a tuition basis the high school students of a distressed school district, so long as a designated school district's border is no more than three miles from the border of the distressed school district. Such designation shall occur no later than fifteen (15) days after the effective date of this section. No designated school district shall be assigned more than one hundred sixty-five (165) students from the distressed school district.
(3) To establish the per-pupil tuition rate that a school district designated under paragraph (1) shall receive for each reassigned student in a regular or special education program. For the 2007-2008 school year, the tuition rate shall be the 2006-2007 high school tuition charge of each of the school districts designated under paragraph (1). For the 2008-2009 school year and each school year thereafter, the tuition rate established under this paragraph may not exceed the tuition rate established for the 2007-2008 school year multiplied by the greater of either two per centum (2%) or the percentage increase in total budgeted revenues available to a distressed school district.
(b) A school district designated under subsection (a)(1) shall provide transportation to reassigned students to its high school and shall be eligible for transportation reimbursement in a manner consistent with section 2541.4
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulation, guideline, directive, decision or agreement to the contrary, any school district that is designated under subsection (a)(1) may not be required to include the students in its public school enrollment report for the purposes of determining an interscholastic sports classification by a private entity that is organized under the laws of this Commonwealth to administer interscholastic athletics.
(e) A student assigned to a school district designated under subsection (a)(1) shall be included in the average daily membership of the student's school district of residence for the purpose of providing basic education funding allocations and special education funding payments pursuant to Article XXV.5
(f) No later than February 1, 2008, and February 1 of each year thereafter, the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee shall submit a report to the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and to the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations and Education Committees of the House of Representatives summarizing the financial and academic status of a distressed school district under this section and including an audit of its accounts for the immediately preceding school year.
(g) For the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years, a school district designated under subsection (a)(1) shall receive an additional per-pupil sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for students reassigned pursuant to this section. These additional funds shall be used for transition services to students, including, but not limited to, student mentoring, tutoring, employe in-service programs designed to assist transitioning students and security expenditures.
Credits
1949, March 10, P.L. 30, No. 14, art. XVI, § 1607.1, added 2007, July 20, P.L. 278, No. 45, § 14, imd. effective.
Footnotes
24 P.S. § 6-692.
24 P.S. § 17-1703-B.
24 P.S. § 16-1607.
24 P.S. § 25-2541.
24 P.S. § 25-2501 et seq.
24 P.S. § 16-1607.1, PA ST 24 P.S. § 16-1607.1
Current through 2023 Regular Session Act 32. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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