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SB1335: CTEDs; ADM; dual enrollment

PRIME SPONSOR: Senator Carter, LD 15

BILL STATUS: Education

 

 

Overview

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NotePrescribes hour requirements for career technical education district (CTED) students for calculating average daily membership (ADM).

History

A CTED is a school district that delivers career and technical education courses to secondary students in cooperation with school districts and charter schools. A CTED may own or lease a centralized campus to offer career technical education courses and programs (A.R.S. § 15-393).

CTEDs receive basic state aid funding for students who are in grades 10 through 12. The amount of funding is determined by a CTED's ADM, which represents the total enrollment of full-time and fractional students, minus withdrawals, of each school day through the first 100 days of the school year (A.R.S. § 15-901(A)(1)). Currently, statute establishes the following requirements for calculating a CTED's ADM:

·         A CTED student at a centralized campus who is enrolled in a course that meets for at least 150 minutes per class period generates 0.75 ADM (A.R.S. § 15-393(P)); and

·         Statute prohibits a student at a leased centralized campus with the same enrollment from generating more than 0.75 ADM (A.R.S. § 15-393(Q)).

A CTED student who does not meet either requirement generates 0.25 ADM for each course taken, but their total ADM may not exceed 1.75 (A.R.S. § 15-393(N)). A student who is enrolled in both a school operated by a school district and a centralized CTED campus may generate a total of 1.75 ADM. The school district and CTED must determine how to apportion ADM for that student, with no more than 1.0 ADM apportioned to either entity (A.R.S. § 15-393(P)).  

Provisions

ADM calculations for CTEDs and community colleges

1.       Prescribes that ADM of a full-time CTED student must be 1.0 if the student is enrolled in one or more courses that meet for at least 600 hours. (Sec. 1)

2.       Requires students in an approved CTED centralized or leased centralized program to be calculated by dividing the instructional hours reported in the student information system by 600 hours, except that:

a.       150-299 hours equals 0.25 ADM;

b.       300-449 hours equals 0.50 ADM; and

c.        450-599 hours equals 0.75 ADM. (Sec. 1)

3.       Requires the member school district and CTED to determine the apportionment of ADM and student enrollment for a pupil between the member school district and the CTED, except that the amount apportioned must not exceed 1.0 for either entity. (Sec. 1)

4.       Specifies that students in approved CTED centralized or leased centralized programs may generate ADM of up to 1.0 during any day of the week and at any time between July 1 and June 30 of each fiscal year. (Sec. 1)

5.       Clarifies that a pupil who is enrolled in career technical education courses at a community college must be counted as 0.25 ADM for every five community college credits for career technical education courses and limits their total ADM to 1.75. (Sec. 1)

6.       Makes the proposed revisions to ADM calculations retroactive to June 1, 2015. (Sec. 4)

Dual enrollment

7.       Expands the class status requirements for dual enrollment admission to community colleges to all high school students, rather than only high school junior and senior students. (Sec. 3)

Miscellaneous

8.       Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1 and 2)

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12.   Fifty-fourth Legislature                       SB 1335

13.   First Regular Session                            Version 1: Education

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