School Funding 2023-24 for New Arrival Students

Joint Budget Committee. For the 2023-24 budget year, the bill appropriates $24 million from the state education fund to the department of education (department) to distribute one-time funding to school districts and institute charter schools that enrolled new arrival students after the 2023-24 pupil enrollment count day.

The bill provides to each school district and each institute charter school that requests funding pursuant to the bill:

• An amount determined by a tiered schedule that is based on the total number of new arrival students who enrolled in the school district or institute charter schools after the 2023-24 pupil enrollment count day; and
• $4,500 for each student who is in the school district's or institute charter schools' total net student population; except that, if the amount appropriated is insufficient to meet the demand, the department is required to proportionately reduce the $4,500 amount.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)