(1)(a) For the 1998-99 budget
year through the 2007-08 budget year, a district shall be eligible for aid pursuant
to this section if:
(I)The district has more than one elementary or secondary school
attendance center; and
(II)The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance
centers with a pupil enrollment of less than two hundred and that are located
twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center in the same
district.
(b)For the 2008-09 budget year and budget years thereafter, a district shall
be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if:
(I)The district has more than one elementary or secondary school
attendance center;
(II)The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance
centers that have pupil enrollments of
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(1) (a) For the 1998-99 budget
year through the 2007-08 budget year, a district shall be eligible for aid pursuant
to this section if:
(I) The district has more than one elementary or secondary school
attendance center; and
(II) The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance
centers with a pupil enrollment of less than two hundred and that are located
twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center in the same
district.
(b) For the 2008-09 budget year and budget years thereafter, a district shall
be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if:
(I) The district has more than one elementary or secondary school
attendance center;
(II) The district operates one or more elementary or secondary attendance
centers that have pupil enrollments of less than two hundred and that are located
twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center in the same
district; and
(III) The district received aid pursuant to this section prior to the 2008-09
budget year.
(1.5) (a) For the 2004-05 budget year through the 2007-08 budget year, an
institute charter school shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if the
institute charter school has a pupil enrollment of fewer than two hundred and is
located twenty or more miles from any similar school attendance center.
(b) For the 2008-09 budget year and budget years thereafter, an institute
charter school shall be eligible for aid pursuant to this section if the institute
charter school has a pupil enrollment of fewer than two hundred, is located twenty
or more miles from any similar school attendance center, and received aid pursuant
to this section prior to the 2008-09 budget year.
(2) (a) A district meeting the eligibility requirements of subsection (1) of this
section is eligible to receive aid for each small attendance center as calculated by:
Multiplying the pupil enrollment of the small attendance center by an amount equal
to thirty-five percent of the difference between the district per pupil funding and
the district per pupil funding, except using the size factor calculated using the
funded pupil count of the small attendance center; and then multiplying the amount
by the percentage determined by dividing the difference between two hundred and
the funded pupil count of the small attendance center by two hundred.
(b) An institute charter school meeting the eligibility requirements of
subsection (1.5) of this section is eligible to receive aid as a small attendance center
as calculated by: Multiplying the pupil enrollment of the institute charter school by
an amount equal to thirty-five percent of the difference between the district per
pupil funding of the institute charter school's accounting district and the district
per pupil funding, except using the size factor calculated using the pupil
enrollment of the institute charter school, and then multiplying such amount by the
percentage determined by dividing the difference between two hundred and the
pupil enrollment of the institute charter school by two hundred.
(3) The general assembly shall appropriate annually an amount for small
attendance center aid to be distributed pursuant to the formulas in subsection (2)
of this section. In the event the amount of money appropriated by the general
assembly is less than the amount of aid authorized by this section to all eligible
districts and eligible institute charter schools, the amount to be distributed to each
eligible school district and eligible institute charter school shall be in the same
proportion as the amount that the appropriation bears to the total amount of aid for
all eligible districts and eligible institute charter schools.
(4) If a school district receives small attendance center aid pursuant to this
section for a small attendance center that is a district charter school, the school
district shall forward the entire amount of such aid to the district charter school for
which it was received. If an institute charter school is eligible for small attendance
center aid pursuant to this section, the state charter school institute shall forward
the entire amount of such aid to the institute charter school for which it was
received.