Title 15 — Education
18 chapters · 856 sections in this title.
A.R.S. § 15-949 Small school districts; exemption from general budget limit; budget revision
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A. The governing board of a common school district with a student count in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight of one hundred twenty-five or less, the governing board of a high school district with a student count of one hundred or less or the governing board of a …
A.R.S. § 15-950 Revenue control limits for new school districts
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A resulting common, high or unified school district after consolidation of school districts as provided in section 15-459, subsection B, paragraph 2 or 3 or subsection C shall determine, in the first budget year, its allowable revenue control limit as follows: 1. Determine the al…
A.R.S. § 15-953 Increases in the base level
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If a school district receives approval to calculate its budget using an increase in the base level pursuant to any law for a given fiscal year, that increase in the base level applies only to the fiscal year for which approval was given. In order to calculate its budget using an …
A.R.S. § 15-954 Adjustment for tuition loss
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A. The district may increase its base support level for tuition loss as prescribed in subsection B of this section if all of the following apply: 1. A school district receives tuition for high school pupils from a school district which is inside or outside of this state and which…
A.R.S. § 15-961 District additional assistance; growth rate
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A. District additional assistance per student count is established as follows: 1. For school districts with a student count of less than one hundred for kindergarten programs and grades one through eight, $663.81. For school districts with a student count of one hundred or more a…
A.R.S. § 15-962.01 District additional assistance allocation for career technical education districts
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The district additional assistance for a career technical education district shall be the amount for students in grades nine through twelve for districts with a student count of six hundred or more as prescribed in section 15-961.
A.R.S. § 15-963 Capital transportation adjustment for small school districts
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A. A school district may apply to the state board of education for a capital transportation adjustment for the purchase of a transportation vehicle if the district meets all of the following requirements: 1. Has a student count of fewer than six hundred in kindergarten programs a…
A.R.S. § 15-964 Federal impact adjustment
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A. The governing board of a school district may compute a federal impact adjustment to the unrestricted capital budget limit. The maximum amount of the federal impact adjustment is the sum of the following: 1. Twenty-five percent of the monies received from forest reserve funds b…
A.R.S. § 15-965 Schools; impact aid; teacher housing
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Notwithstanding any other law, a school district that receives federal impact aid may use those monies for maintenance and renovation of teacher housing and may transfer those monies into the teacherage account.
A.R.S. § 15-971 Determination of equalization assistance payments from county and state funds for school districts
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A. Equalization assistance for education is computed by determining the total of the following: 1. The lesser of a school district's revenue control limit or district support level as determined in section 15-947. 2. District additional assistance of a school district as determin…
A.R.S. § 15-972 State limitation on homeowner property taxes; additional state aid to school districts; definitions
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A. Notwithstanding section 15-971, there shall be additional state aid for education computed for school districts as provided in subsection B of this section. B. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall compute such additional state aid for education as follows: 1. For a high…
A.R.S. § 15-973 Apportionment of funds; expenditure limitation
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A. The state board of education shall apportion state aid from appropriations made for that purpose to the several counties on the basis of state aid entitlement for the school districts in each county. An allowance shall not be made for nonresident alien children or for wards of…
A.R.S. § 15-973.01 Assistance for education fund
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A. The assistance for education fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to section 43-617. B. The state board of education shall administer the fund. On notice from the state board, the state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the fund as provided by s…
A.R.S. § 15-974 Equalization assistance for education for accommodation schools
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A. Equalization assistance for education for accommodation schools shall be paid from appropriations for that purpose to the school districts as provided in section 15-973. B. When an accommodation school has a positive total cash balance at the end of a fiscal year in its mainte…
A.R.S. § 15-975 Method of determining funds payable to a joint common school district
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In determining the amount of state, county and federal monies or school aid payable to a joint common school district, the portion of the territory of the joint common school district within each county shall be regarded as a separate school district lying within such county. Rec…
A.R.S. § 15-976 Assistance for school districts for children whose parents are employed by certain state institutions; expenditure limitation
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A. The superintendent of public instruction shall assist school districts in educating children whose parents or legal guardians are employed by and domiciled at the following state institutions and stations: the state hospital, the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blin…
A.R.S. § 15-977 Classroom site fund; definitions
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A. The classroom site fund is established consisting of monies transferred to the fund pursuant to section 37-521, subsection B, section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 10 and section 42-5029.02, subsection A. The department of education shall administer the fund. School distric…
A.R.S. § 15-978 Classroom site fund budget limit; school district
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The classroom site fund budget limit for each school district is the sum of the following: 1. The allocation that is computed for the school district pursuant to section 15-977, subsection G, paragraph 2. 2. The unexpended budget balance from the classroom site fund for the prior…
A.R.S. § 15-979 Instructional improvement fund
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(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies.) A. The instructional improvement fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to sections 5-601.02(H)(3)(a)(i) and 5-601.02(H)(3)(b)(i), and interest earned on those monies. The department of education shall administer the fund. T…
A.R.S. § 15-980 Uncollected property tax; property tax loss; supplemental state aid
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A. A school district is eligible for supplemental state aid pursuant to this section if a county treasurer certifies to the school district after January 1 that, in the treasurer's reasonable belief, more than ten percent of the primary property tax revenues that the school distr…
A.R.S. § 15-1000 County school fund
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The county school fund of each county shall consist of all revenues accruing to the credit of each county from: 1. That portion of the payments made under section 36-1419 which represents payment in lieu of the county levy for school purposes. 2. Taylor grazing act monies as prov…
A.R.S. § 15-1001 Special county school reserve fund
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A. The board of supervisors of each county shall annually budget for the special county school reserve fund an amount to meet the requirements of that fund. Warrants drawn on the special county school reserve fund shall be approved prior to payment by the board of supervisors, as…
A.R.S. § 15-1002 Administration of county school reserve fund; uses
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A. The special county school reserve fund may be used only for: 1. Transportation of children to and from one-room and two-room rural schools that are determined by the county school superintendent to be in need of such aid. 2. Transportation from unorganized territory to school …
A.R.S. § 15-991 Annual estimate by county school superintendent of monies for ensuing year; review and approval by property tax oversight commission
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A. The county school superintendent shall recompute the equalization assistance for education for each school district pursuant to section 15-971, subsection A and compute the additional amount to be levied pursuant to section 15-992, subsection B using the property values provid…
A.R.S. § 15-991.01 Tax levy for property not located in a school district
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A. The board of supervisors of each county, at the time of levying other taxes, shall annually levy a tax on property not located in a school district. The tax levy shall be at a rate equal to one-half the qualifying tax rate prescribed in section 15-971, subsection B, paragraph …
A.R.S. § 15-992 School district tax levy; additional tax in districts ineligible for equalization assistance; definition
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A. The board of supervisors of each county, at the time of levying other taxes, shall annually levy school district taxes on the property in any school district in which additional amounts are required, which shall be at rates prescribed in this section. A delinquency factor for …
A.R.S. § 15-995 Special district assessment for adjacent ways by school district
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A. The governing board of a school district may contract for constructing, maintaining or otherwise improving any public way adjacent to any parcel of land owned by the school district or leased for school purposes by the school district, or an intersection of any public way adjo…
A.R.S. § 15-996 Duties of county treasurer relating to school district's monies
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The county treasurer shall: 1. Receive and hold all school district monies and keep a separate account for each school district and for the special county school reserve fund. The county treasurer may maintain separate accounts for each fund of a school district or the county tre…
A.R.S. § 15-997 Authority of county officers as to funds, taxes and boundaries of joint common school district
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A. The county treasurer of the jurisdictional county shall have custody of the funds of a joint common school district and shall perform all duties imposed by law for the control and accounting of other school funds. Warrants drawn against the funds of a joint common school distr…
A.R.S. § 15-998 Liability of treasurer for failure to keep separate account or give notice; enforcement
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If the county treasurer fails to keep a separate account for each school district and for the special county school reserve fund or give the notice required by section 15-996, he is liable to the county in the amount of five hundred dollars, and the county attorney shall, upon di…
A.R.S. § 15-999 Preference of payment of warrants; use of balance of school fund remaining at close of fiscal year
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A. All warrants registered after January 1, 1936 and drawn on the county treasurer against the school fund of the school district by the county school superintendent or finance officer of a school district that has assumed accounting responsibility pursuant to section 15-914.01 o…
A.R.S. § 15-1021 Limit on bonded indebtedness; limit on authorization and issuance of bonds; definitions
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A. Until December 31, 1999, a school district may issue class A bonds for the purposes specified in this section and chapter 4, article 5 of this title to an amount in the aggregate, including the existing indebtedness, not exceeding fifteen percent of the taxable property used f…
A.R.S. § 15-1022 Tax levy for bonds; administration and disposition of tax; cancellation of paid bonds; security
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A. The board of supervisors, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, shall levy a tax for the year on the taxable property in a school district or former school district canceled by election, which has outstanding school bonds for the interest and redemption …
A.R.S. § 15-1023 Issuance of bonds
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A. Upon receipt of the certificate of the appropriate election officer as provided in section 15-493 that a majority of votes cast at the bond election favors issuing the bonds, the school district governing board shall issue the bonds of the school district in the number and amo…
A.R.S. § 15-1023.01 Municipal property corporation financing prohibited; definition
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A. Except as provided in subsection C, a school district shall not directly or indirectly pledge its full faith and credit nor incur any direct or indirect obligation of any kind against or pay school district revenues to a municipal property corporation or a special district und…
A.R.S. § 15-1024 Interest on bonds; sale; disposition of proceeds; definition
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A. The bonds shall bear interest, payable semiannually at the rate or rates set by the accepted bid, which shall not exceed the maximum rate of interest set forth in the resolution calling the election. The bonds may be made payable at such place within the United States as the g…
A.R.S. § 15-1025 Investment and reinvestment of debt service fund
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A. The governing board of a school district may invest and reinvest all monies belonging or credited to the school district as a debt service fund. Consent may be requested prior to the beginning of any fiscal year for the adoption of a resolution of continuing effect. The invest…
A.R.S. § 15-1027 Administration of school district debt service funds by county treasurer
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The county treasurer shall keep an account of all school district debt service funds, showing the school district to which each fund belongs. On or before the fifteenth day of each month the treasurer shall credit the amount of monies collected during the preceding month to which…
A.R.S. § 15-1028 Disposition of surplus tax monies
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A. If a bond issue and interest thereon have been fully paid and a balance remains in the debt service fund from taxes collected for payment of the bonds and interest, the balance may be applied on the payment of other outstanding bonded indebtedness of the school district payabl…
A.R.S. § 15-1029 Rights of bondholder; additional state tax
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A. If the board of supervisors fails to make the levy necessary to pay school district bonds or interest coupons at maturity and such bonds or coupons are presented to the county treasurer and payment is refused, the owner may file the bond, together with all unpaid coupons, with…
A.R.S. § 15-1030 Cancellation of unsold bonds; notice; hearing
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A. If a bond issue remains unsold for six months after being offered for sale, the governing board of the school district or any school district comprised wholly or partly of territory which at the time of holding the bond election was within the school district may cancel the un…
A.R.S. § 15-1031 Power to use outstanding bond authorizations of common school districts or high school districts
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A. All outstanding authorizations permitting the issuance of bonds, as provided in this section and sections 15-1022 through 15-1030, or the incurring of debt by a common school district or a high school district at the time either such district becomes part of a unified school d…
A.R.S. § 15-1032 Capital facilities; bonded indebtedness liability for unified school districts
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A. All school buildings of established school districts which are located within any unified school district shall, together with all equipment and furnishings, become the property of the unified school district. B. If any established common school district or high school distric…
A.R.S. § 15-1033 Certification of school district bonds by attorney general
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A. Any school district may submit to the attorney general bonds to be issued under this article after the school district has authorized their issuance. Within fifteen days after submission by the school district, the attorney general shall examine the bonds and pass on the valid…
A.R.S. § 15-1041 Student accountability information system
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The student accountability information system is established to enable school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools to transmit student level data and school finance data electronically through the internet to the department of education for the purp…
A.R.S. § 15-1042 Student level data; timeline for submittal; confidentiality; definition
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A. The department of education shall notify school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools of electronic data submission procedures and shall distribute a list of the specific student level data elements, including the statutory or regulatory reference…
A.R.S. § 15-1043 Student level data; allowable disclosure; policies
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A. Any disclosure of educational records compiled by the department of education pursuant to this article shall comply with the family educational rights and privacy act (20 United States Code section 1232g). B. Student level data may not be updated unless the change is authorize…
A.R.S. § 15-1045 Education database; pupil privacy
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A. Any collection, maintenance or disclosure of pupil educational records compiled by the department of education in an education database of pupil records shall comply with the family educational rights and privacy act (20 United States Code section 1232g). B. The department of …
A.R.S. § 15-1046 Student data privacy; definitions
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A. An operator may not knowingly do any of the following: 1. Engage in targeted advertising on the operator's site, service or application or on any other site, service or application if the targeting of the advertising is based on any information, including covered information a…
A.R.S. § 15-1051 Definition of noncustodial federal monies
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In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "noncustodial federal monies": 1. Means federal monies that are received by the department of education and that meet at least one of the following criteria: (a) Are designated by the federal government as block grant monies…