§ 1722-B. Department of Education
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal AffairsEffective: July 1, 2021
Effective: July 1, 2021
72 P.S. § 1722-B
§ 1722-B. Department of Education
The following shall apply to appropriations to the Department of Education:
(i) no less than the amount allocated in the 2014-2015 fiscal year shall be allocated for an after-school learning program servicing low-income students located in a county of the sixth class with a population, based on the most recent Federal decennial census, of at least 60,000 but not more than 70,000; and
(ii) no less than the amount allocated in the 2016-2017 fiscal year shall be used for an after-school learning program servicing low-income students located in a county of the third class with a population, based on the most recent Federal decennial census, of at least 320,000 but not more than 321,000.
(2) From money appropriated for the Pre-K Counts Program, the per-student grant award amount for grants made pursuant to section 1514-D1 of the Public School Code of 1949 shall be paid at the same rate as the amount paid in fiscal year 2019-2020.
(i) Upon distribution of the final tuition payment for the fiscal year, the balance of the appropriation, excluding funds for capital-related costs and deferred maintenance, shall be used to pay the schools' increased share of required contributions for public school employees' retirement and shall be distributed pro rata based on each school's contributions for the prior fiscal year.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money from the set-aside under section 2509.82 of the Public School Code of 1949 shall be allocated to each approved private school with a day tuition rate determined to be less than $32,000 during the 2010-2011 school year. The allocation shall be no less than the amount allocated in the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds set aside under section 2509.8 of the Public School Code of 1949 shall include an allocation of $1,000,000 for an approved private school which received a payment under section 1722-F(3).3
(iii) For the purposes of the formula for approved private schools under section 13764 of the Public School Code of 1949 for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, a payment made under this paragraph shall be considered part of the base allocation in section 1376(a.2) of the Public School Code of 1949.
(9) Notwithstanding section 1724-A5 of the Public School Code of 1949 or 24 Pa.C.S. § 8329 (relating to payments on account of social security deductions from appropriations), no payments shall be made to charter schools, regional charter schools or cyber charter schools authorized under Article XVII-A6 of the Public School Code of 1949 to provide for Social Security and Medicare contributions from money appropriated for basic education funding or school employees' Social Security.
(10) Notwithstanding section 1724-A of the Public School Code of 1949 or 24 Pa.C.S. §§ 8326 (relating to contributions by the Commonwealth) and 8535 (relating to payments to school entities by Commonwealth), no payments shall be made to charter schools, regional charter schools or cyber charter schools authorized under Article XVII-A of the Public School Code of 1949 from money appropriated for payment of required contributions for public school employees' retirement.
Credits
1929, April 9, P.L. 343, No. 176, art. XVII-B, § 1722-B, added 2021, June 30, P.L. 62, No. 24, § 18, effective July 1, 2021.
Footnotes
24 P.S. § 15-1514-D.
24 P.S. § 25-2509.8.
72 P.S. § 1722-F.
24 P.S. § 13-1376.
24 P.S. § 17-1724-A.
24 P.S. § 17-1701-A et seq.
72 P.S. § 1722-B, PA ST 72 P.S. § 1722-B
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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