Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 25-2502.8 - Payments on account of pupils enrolled in vocational curriculums(a) For the purpose of reimbursement in accordance with this section, career and technical curriculums are agriculture education, marketing and distributive occupational education, health occupations education, family and consumer sciences education (GAINFUL), business education, computer and information technology, technical education, trade and industrial education, or any other occupational oriented program approved by the Secretary of Education.(b) For the 1981-1982 school year through the 1984-1985 school year, each school district so entitled shall be paid, in addition to any other subsidy to which it is entitled, an amount on account of resident pupils enrolled in career and technical curriculums; For the 1985-1986 school year through the 1999-2000 school year, each school district and area career and technical school shall be paid an amount on account of students enrolled in career and technical curriculums; For the 2000-2001 school year and each school year thereafter, each school district, area career and technical school and charter school shall be paid an amount on account of students enrolled in career and technical curriculums, determined as follows: (1) Determine the increase in the weighted average daily membership by multiplying the number of students in average daily membership in career and technical curriculums in area career and technical schools by twenty-one hundredths (.21) and the number of students in average daily membership in school district and charter school career and technical curriculums by seventeen hundredths (.17); except:(i) For the 2021-2022 school year , determine the increase in the weighted average daily membership by multiplying the number of students in average daily membership in career and technical curriculums in area career and technical schools by two thousand two hundred seventy-six ten thousandths (.2276) and the number of students in average daily membership in school district and charter school career and technical curriculums by one thousand eight hundred forty-four ten thousandths (.1844).(ii) For the 2022-2023 school year and each fiscal year thereafter, determine the increase in the weighted average daily membership by multiplying the number of students in average daily membership in career and technical curriculums in area career and technical schools by two thousand six hundred sixty-eight ten thousandths (.2668) and the number of students in average daily membership in school district and charter school career and technical curriculums by two thousand one hundred seventy-eight ten thousandths (.2178). (2) Multiply the lesser of the district's actual instruction expense per weighted average daily membership or the base earned for reimbursement by the market value/income aid ratio or by three hundred seventy-five thousandths (.375), whichever is greater.(3) Multiply the increase in weighted average daily membership determined in clause (1) by the result of clause (2).(4) For the 1985-1986 through 1999-2000 school years, the Commonwealth shall pay the amount required by this section to the school district or area career and technical school which provides the program upon which reimbursement is based.(5) For the 2000-2001 school year and each school year thereafter, the Commonwealth shall pay the amount required under this section to the school district, area career and technical school or charter school which provides the programs upon which reimbursement is based.(c) For the school year 1998-1999, any additional funding provided by the Commonwealth over the amount provided for the school year 1997-1998 will be distributed to area career and technical schools and to school districts with eight (8) or more career and technical programs based on subsection (b).(d) For the school year 1999-2000, any additional funding provided by the Commonwealth over the amount provided for the school year 1998-1999 will be distributed to area career and technical schools, to school districts with eight (8) or more career and technical programs and to school districts offering a career and technical agricultural education program, based on subsection (B).(e) For the school year 2000-2001 and each school year thereafter, any additional funding provided by the Commonwealth over the amount provided for the school year 1998-1999 will be distributed to area career and technical schools, to school districts and charter schools with eight (8) or more career and technical programs and to school districts and charter schools offering a career and technical agricultural education program based on subsection (b).(f) For the school year 2018-2019 and each school year thereafter, payments made under this section shall be funded from the appropriation for career and technical education and shall not be proportionately reduced in accordance with section 2502.6(b) or any other law.Amended by P.L. TBD 2023 No. 33,§ 31, eff. 12/13/2023.Amended by P.L. TBD 2022 No. 55, § 53, eff. 7/8/2022.Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 76, § 60, eff. 12/30/2019.Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 16, § 19, eff. 7/1/2019.1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. XXV, § 2502.8, added 1982 , May 11, P.L. 396, No. 115, § 7, effective 7/1/1982. Amended 1986 , July 10, P.L. 1270, No. 117, § 15, imd. effective; 1999, June 26, P.L. 394, No. 36, § 9, effective 7/1/1999; 2000, May 10, P.L. 44, No. 16, § 12, effective 7/1/2000; 2001, June 22, P.L. 530, No. 35, § 26, effective 7/1/2001.