15-1284. Separate local-level funds; annual reporting; no supplanting

 

(Caution:  1998 Prop. 105 applies)

 

A. Each school district and charter school that receives monies from the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 shall establish a separate local level fund to receive monies from that fund.  This subsection applies to the state education system for committed youth and the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind.

B. Each school district, charter school and career technical education district that receives monies from the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 shall establish a separate local-level fund to receive monies from that fund.

C. School districts, charter schools and career technical education districts that receive monies from either the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 or the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 shall provide:

1. An accounting of monies received from those funds each fiscal year through the uniform system of financial records.

2. Information regarding classroom teacher salaries for each fiscal year through the uniform system of financial records, including the average classroom teacher salary, the average salary for a first-year classroom teacher, and the average salaries for classroom teachers in their fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth years of teaching in the school district, charter school or career technical education district.

D. The department of education and the auditor general shall allow the additional reporting required by subsection C of this section through the uniform system of financial records and the Arizona chart of accounts.

E. Notwithstanding any other law, the additional monies received by school districts, charter schools and career technical education districts from the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 and the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 are in addition to any other appropriation, transfer or allocation of public or private monies from any other source and may not supplant, replace or cause a reduction in other funding sources.