Talking Points for SB 36

• Provides that the Department of Education shall reimburse school districts at the same rate for pupil transportation regardless of whether the district contracts for the transportation or provides it with district owned school busses.

• Defines "unhoused students" to include students that are housed in temporary relocatable facilities for the purpose of providing capital improvement project grants.

• The local contribution requirement is changed from 4 mills or 35% of basic need to 4.5 mills equivalent tax effort.

• Requires municipal school districts to contribute the amount that 4.5 mills equivalent tax effort generates over basic need to the public school foundation account.

• A funding community must have at least 10 students in average daily membership.

• Allows a school district to offset a reduction of five percent or more in elementary and secondary school instructional units that the district is to receive under the foundation formula.

• Eliminates instructional units for funding communities with less than ten ADM.

• The single site school districts with an ADM of 900 or less shall receive between 6 and 12 percent additional K-12 units. Currently additional support for single site schools is funded outside the formula.

• Bilingual education instructional units are no longer weighted by language dominance and receive .021 instructional units per student. Current regulations provide weights from .1 to 1 in five categories which are multiplied times .042 instructional units.

• Special Education Funding for gifted and talented students is funded based on 4.5% of ADM in each school district.

• Adds Supplemental Equalization Aid, a formula that provides additional state aid to school districts based on ADM and assessed value per ADM.

• Changes the date for making student counts