Connecticut 2012 2012 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00124 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/15/2012

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 124
February Session, 2012  LCO No. 684
Referred to Committee on Education
Introduced by:
SEN. BOUCHER, 26th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 124 

February Session, 2012

LCO No. 684

Referred to Committee on Education 

Introduced by:

SEN. BOUCHER, 26th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE INCLUSION OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS IN THE ECS FORMULA AND THE PER PUPIL GRANT FOR STUDENTS IN STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to revise the education cost sharing formula by expanding the definition of resident students to include students attending state charter schools and that section 10-66ee of the general statutes be amended to provide twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each student enrolled in a state charter school and to cap the amount for any empty slots in a state charter school at nine thousand three hundred dollars.

Statement of Purpose: 

To reform the ECS funding system as it applies to charter schools.