S816 - CC Funds/CIHS Funds/CR Funds and Offsets. (SL 2020-64)

Overview: S.L. 2020-64, Secs. 4A-7, provide supplemental funding for certain cooperative innovative high schools (CIHSs) for the 2020-2021 school year, and authorizes the operation of three additional CIHSs.

The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) must report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by January 15, 2021, on CIHSs approved to receive funds by the General Assembly, including the development tier used for funding in the 2020-2021 school year. DPI must include in the report projected adjustments to required funding based on the development tier designation for CIHSs, effective for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, and the projected total difference in required state funding for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 fiscal years for the CIHSs, if all currently funded schools are funded for 2021-2022 in accordance with the updated development tier designations.

The State Board of Education (SBE) may not approve new CIHSs that require General Assembly funding for the 2021-2022 school year.

For applicants for CIHSs opening in the 2022-2023 school year and after, the SBE may conditionally approve up to three CIHSs to open in a school year, if those schools request General Assembly funding, and may prioritize CIHSs in local school administrative school units that do not currently have CIHSs.

These sections became effective July 1, 2020.