Highlights:

• Appropriates $6,312 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2019 (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Appropriates $6,501 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2020 (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Appropriates $6,631 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2021 and years later (Article 1, Sec. 19).  

• Requires a school administrator to prepare and enforce an admission or readmission plan for any pupil who is excluded or expelled from school, and must include measures to improve the pupil’s behavior, and may include social and emotional learning, counseling, social work services, mental health services, referrals for special education, and evidence-based academic interventions (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Requires the commissioner of education to provide funding to districts and charter schools with eligible sites to plan, implement, and provide full-service community schools(Article 2, Sec. 29).

• Specifies that districts and charter schools shall be appropriated up to the following amounts (Article 2, Sec. 29):

• $100,000 for each eligible school available for up to one year to fund planning activities including convening a full-service community school leadership team, facilitating family and community stakeholder engagement, conducting a baseline analysis, and creating a full-service community school plan; and

• $150,000 annually for each eligible school for up to 3 years of implementation of a full-service community school plan. Districts or charter schools receiving funding for 3 or more schools must provide or contract with a partner agency to provide a full-service community initiative director.

• Definies “community-wide full-service community school leadership team” as a district-level team that is responsible for guiding the vision, policy, resource alignment, implementation, oversight, and goal setting for community school programs within the district (Article 2, Sec. 29).

• Requires the percentage of teachers of color or American Indian teachers to increase at least 2 percentage points per year to have a teaching workforce that more closely reflects the student population and increases access to effective and diverse teachers by 2040 (Article 3, Sec. 2).

• Requires the commissioner to distribute student and school safety air equal to a total of $57.08 times each district's adjusted average daily membership for fiscal year 2019 (Article 1, Sec. 41).

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Vote Smart's Synopsis:

A vote to pass a bill that appropriates funds for education finance.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $6,312 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2019 (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Appropriates $6,501 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2020 (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Appropriates $6,631 as the formula allowance for fiscal year 2021 and years later (Article 1, Sec. 19).  

• Requires a school administrator to prepare and enforce an admission or readmission plan for any pupil who is excluded or expelled from school, and must include measures to improve the pupil’s behavior, and may include social and emotional learning, counseling, social work services, mental health services, referrals for special education, and evidence-based academic interventions (Article 1, Sec. 19).

• Requires the commissioner of education to provide funding to districts and charter schools with eligible sites to plan, implement, and provide full-service community schools(Article 2, Sec. 29).

• Specifies that districts and charter schools shall be appropriated up to the following amounts (Article 2, Sec. 29):

• $100,000 for each eligible school available for up to one year to fund planning activities including convening a full-service community school leadership team, facilitating family and community stakeholder engagement, conducting a baseline analysis, and creating a full-service community school plan; and

• $150,000 annually for each eligible school for up to 3 years of implementation of a full-service community school plan. Districts or charter schools receiving funding for 3 or more schools must provide or contract with a partner agency to provide a full-service community initiative director.

• Definies “community-wide full-service community school leadership team” as a district-level team that is responsible for guiding the vision, policy, resource alignment, implementation, oversight, and goal setting for community school programs within the district (Article 2, Sec. 29).

• Requires the percentage of teachers of color or American Indian teachers to increase at least 2 percentage points per year to have a teaching workforce that more closely reflects the student population and increases access to effective and diverse teachers by 2040 (Article 3, Sec. 2).

• Requires the commissioner to distribute student and school safety air equal to a total of $57.08 times each district's adjusted average daily membership for fiscal year 2019 (Article 1, Sec. 41).

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