46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003
RELATING TO EDUCATION; PROVIDING FOR ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR SIZE ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM UNITS; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 22-8-23 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1975, Chapter 119, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
"22-8-23. SIZE ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM UNITS.--
A. An approved public school with a MEM of less
than [400] four hundred, including early childhood education
full-time-equivalent MEM but excluding membership in class C
and class D programs and excluding full-time-equivalent
membership in three- and four-year-old developmentally disabled
programs, is eligible for additional program units. Separate
schools established to provide special programs, including [but
not limited to] vocational [and alternative] education, shall
not be classified as public schools for purposes of generating
size adjustment program units. Alternative schools approved by
the department shall be eligible for size adjustment program
units. The number of additional program units to which a
school district is entitled under this subsection is the sum of
elementary-junior high units and senior high units computed in
the following manner:
Elementary-Junior High Units
200 - MEM x 1.0 x MEM = Units
200
where MEM is equal to the membership of an approved elementary or junior high school, including early childhood education full-time-equivalent membership but excluding membership in class C and class D programs and excluding full-time-equivalent membership in three- and four-year-old developmentally disabled programs;
Senior High Units
200 - MEM x 2.0 x MEM = Units
200
or
Senior High Units
400 - MEM x 1.6 x MEM = Units
400
whichever calculation for senior high units is higher, where
MEM is equal to the membership of an approved senior high
school excluding membership in class C and class D programs.
B. A school district with total MEM of less than
[4,000] four thousand, including early childhood education
full-time-equivalent MEM, is eligible for additional program
units. The number of additional program units to which a
district is entitled under this subsection is the number of
district units computed in the following manner:
District Units
4000 - MEM x 0.15 x MEM = Units
4000
where MEM is equal to the total district membership, including early childhood education full-time-equivalent membership.
C. A school district with [over 10,000] more than
ten thousand MEM with a ratio of MEM to senior high schools
less than [4,000:1] four thousand to one is eligible for
additional program units based on the number of approved
regular senior high schools that are not eligible for senior
high units under Subsection A of this section. The number of
additional program units to which an eligible school district
is entitled under this subsection is the number of units
computed in the following manner:
4000 - MEM x 0.50 = Units
Senior High Schools
where MEM is equal to the total district membership, including early childhood education full-time-equivalent membership, and where senior high schools are equal to the number of approved regular senior high schools in the district."
Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Eight million one hundred thousand dollars ($8,100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 to fund additional program units generated by alternative school size adjustment program units. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.