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tutes: "The Secretary of Education shall distribute this funding based on actual full time student enrollment in fiscal year 2012."
• The second sentence is in Section 2, which deals with funding for K-12 schools: "The Secretary of Education shall distribute this funding based on actual fall student enrollment in fiscal year 2012."
• I have no objection to the Legislature's intention to distribute these funds to the technical institutes and the K-12 schools. However, I believe these two sentences are in error because both distribute funds according to FY2012 actual student F.T.E., which equates to data from the 2011-12 school year.
• For the technical institutes, the language in the bill is inconsistent with the technical institute funding formula, which is established in administrative rule 24:10:42:28 and which would use more recent data. For K-12 schools, more recent data is also available - the actual student F.T.E for FY2013, or the 2012-13 school year. These approaches to allocating funds would more closely align distribution of these funds with current enrollments.
• The Legislature can use a letter of intent to clarify its intention to distribute the
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