§ 16-77.2-5. Budgets and funding.
(a) It is the intent of the general assembly that funding pursuant to this chapter shall
be neither a financial incentive nor a financial disincentive to the establishment
of a district charter school. Funding for each district charter school shall consist
of state revenue and municipal or district revenue in the same proportions that funding
is provided for other schools within the sending school district(s).
(b) Funding additional to that authorized from the sending school district(s) may be allocated
to the district charter school from the sending school district(s) to t
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§ 16-77.2-5. Budgets and funding.
(a) It is the intent of the general assembly that funding pursuant to this chapter shall
be neither a financial incentive nor a financial disincentive to the establishment
of a district charter school. Funding for each district charter school shall consist
of state revenue and municipal or district revenue in the same proportions that funding
is provided for other schools within the sending school district(s).
(b) Funding additional to that authorized from the sending school district(s) may be allocated
to the district charter school from the sending school district(s) to the extent that
the combined percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch, students
with limited English proficiency, and students requiring special education exceed
the combined percentage of those students in the sending school district(s) as a whole.
The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations consistent with this section
regarding the allocation of funds from sending school districts to district charter
schools.
(c) All services, centrally or otherwise provided by the school district in which the
district charter school is located, that the district charter school decides to utilize
including, but not limited to, transportation, food services, custodial services,
maintenance, curriculum, media services, libraries, nursing, and warehousing, shall
be subject to negotiation between a district charter school and the school district
in which the district charter school is located and paid for out of the revenues of
the district charter school. Disputes with regard to cost of services requested from
the school district in which the district charter school is located will be adjudicated
by the commissioner.
(d) A district charter school shall be eligible to receive other aids, grants, Medicaid
revenue, and other revenue according to Rhode Island law, as though it were a school
district. Federal aid received by the state shall be used to benefit students in the
charter public school, if the school qualifies for the aid, as though it were a school
district.
(e) A district charter school may negotiate and contract directly with third parties for
the purchase of books, instructional materials, and any other goods and services that
are not being provided by the sending school district(s) pursuant to the charter.