Title 15, Education

To the extent permitted by the Constitution of Arizona, unless otherwise specified by law, the department shall apply any change to state law that occurs after July 29, 2010 and that modifies or impacts the school finance formulas prescribed in this title, including the base supp…

A. Each alternative school within a school district and each alternative charter school that provides instruction to high school students may offer a dropout recovery program for eligible students. An online course provider as defined in section 15-808 or an online school as defi…

A. A school district or a charter school may include students enrolled in concurrent coursework for the purposes of calculating average daily membership if the school district has received approval from the state board of education or the charter school has received approval from…

A. Except as may be otherwise authorized by the superintendent of public instruction to accommodate a year-round school operation or as otherwise prescribed under an instructional time model adopted pursuant to this section, the school year begins July 1 and ends June 30, and a s…

A. A school district that loses at least five hundred students from its student count as a result of the formation of a joint unified school district pursuant to section 15-450 and that does not receive tuition for those students for the budget year may increase its base support …

A. The department of education shall recompute and aggregate average daily membership for the previous fiscal year no later than August 30. The department shall inform school districts and charter schools of their final average daily membership no later than September 15. No late…

A. A school district, charter holder or private residential facility that elects to provide at least two hundred days of instruction may increase its base level by five percent. A school district, charter holder or private residential facility that elects to provide at least two …

A. The superintendent of public instruction in conjunction with the auditor general shall prepare and prescribe a budget format to be used by all school districts. B. The budget format shall be designed to allow all school districts to plan and provide in detail for using availab…

A. The governing board of each school district shall publish an annual financial report for the prior fiscal year by November 15. The auditor general in conjunction with the department of education shall prescribe the format of the financial report to be used by school districts.…

A. Not later than July 5 of each year or not later than the publication of notice of the public hearing and board meeting as required by this section, the governing board of each school district shall prepare and furnish to the superintendent of public instruction and the county …

A. Each school district shall determine its truth in taxation base limit for expenditures as follows: 1. Determine the amounts budgeted in fiscal year 1999-2000 for expenditures in the following categories: (a) Desegregation pursuant to section 15-910. (b) Dropout prevention prog…

A. Annually on or before June 30, each school district shall prepare for all levy funds a list of liabilities for goods received or services rendered on or before June 30 that will not be paid by June 30 of the current fiscal year. B. Each school district having levy fund liabili…

A. In the event of excessive and unexpected legal expenses or for an emergency for which the school district did not receive funding pursuant to section 41-5721 because there were insufficient monies in the emergency deficiencies correction fund, the governing board of the school…

A resulting school district after consolidation of a school district and unorganized territory or areas within another school district as provided in section 15-459, subsection C or section 15-460, subsection A shall compute its allowable revenue control limit for the first budge…

A. An accommodation school shall compute a revenue control limit, a district support level and a district additional assistance allocation limit for each fiscal year of operation. B. For the purpose of computing a revenue control limit, a district support level and a district add…

(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. The governing board may budget for the district's excess utility costs that are specifically exempt from the district's revenue control limit. If approved by the qualified electors voting at a statewide general election, the exemption from the…

A. The governing board of a school district which has entered into an intergovernmental agreement or other written contract to establish a jointly owned and operated career and technical education and vocational education center as provided in section 15-789 may budget for vocati…

A. Each school district may establish an energy and water savings account that consists of a designated pool of capital investment monies to fund energy or water saving projects in school facilities. A school district may deposit in the account monies generated from the energy or…

A. On or before June 1 of each year, the legislature shall transmit to the state board of education the aggregate expenditure limitation for all school districts for the following fiscal year that the economic estimates commission determines as provided in section 41-563, subsect…

A. A resulting school district after merger of school districts may budget for consolidation assistance as provided in subsection B of this section if the school districts which merge include any of the following: 1. A common school district and at least one other common school d…

A. New unified school districts formed after a subdivision and unification as provided in section 15-458, subsection G or section 15-459, subsection B, paragraph 5 or new unified school districts formed from a common school district and a high school district pursuant to section …

A. Each county that operates a juvenile detention center shall offer an education program to serve all school-age children in its juvenile detention center. The county school superintendent and the presiding juvenile court judge in each county shall agree on the method of deliver…

A. Each county that operates a county jail shall offer an education program to serve all prisoners who are twenty-one years of age or younger, who do not have a high school diploma or a general equivalency diploma and who are confined in the county jail. The county school superin…

A. The governing board of a school district that is required to comply with the single audit act amendments of 1996 (P.L. 104-156; 110 Stat. 1396; 31 United States Code sections 7501 through 7507) shall contract for at least annual financial and compliance audits of financial tra…

A. School districts may apply to the state board of education to assume accounting responsibility. B. A school district applying to the state board of education to assume accounting responsibility shall develop and file with the county school superintendent of the county in which…

A school district that is subject to audit pursuant to section 41-1279.03 shall comply with the reporting, follow-up and hearing participation requirements of that section.

A. If the superintendent of public instruction determines that the calculation of state aid for a school district or charter school or the calculation of the school district's or charter school's budget limits within the previous three years did not conform with statutory require…

If the governing board of a school district receives a grant from this state for a specific program and did not include the grant in the district's budget, the governing board may, with the approval of the county school superintendent, authorize the expenditure of the grant monie…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, a school district that uses a performance pay component in its salary schedule may budget any budget balance in the maintenance and operation section of the budget that is attributable to performance pay and that is not earned in the current fisc…

A. The Arizona performance based compensation system task force is established within the state board of education. The task force shall consist of the following members appointed by the state board of education: 1. Three certificated teachers who are currently teaching in this s…

A. The superintendent of public instruction shall supervise the provision of pupil transportation services. B. The superintendent of public instruction shall evaluate the transportation program and routes for the purpose of evaluating accurate transportation support levels for th…

A. Each school district, within twelve days after the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, shall certify to the superintendent of public instruction, in an electronic format as prescribed by the department of education, the following: 1. The daily…

A. As an alternative to maintaining and operating a transportation program or in conjunction with a transportation program, a school district, if it is found to be economically advantageous, may contract for vehicles and other transportation services. Contracts may be with anothe…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, a school district may use a portion of its transportation funding allocated pursuant to sections 15-945 and 15-946 to provide in lieu of transportation grants to parents of students who attend the school di…

Notwithstanding any other law, a school district or charter school in this state or a privately owned and operated entity that is contracted for compensation with a school district or charter school in this state may use a motor vehicle that is designed to carry at least eleven a…

A. The teacher experience index for each school district shall be computed as follows: 1. For the school district: Number of FTE years of experience of Number of years Number of FTE certified of experience certified teachers teachers___ 1 x ____ = ____ 2 x ____ = ____ 3 x ____ = …

The base support level for each school district shall be computed as follows: 1. The following support level weights shall be used in paragraph 2, subdivision (a) of this section for the following school districts: (a) For school districts whose student count in kindergarten prog…

A. The governing board of a school district may budget any budget balance in the maintenance and operation section of the budget, as provided in section 15-903, from the current fiscal year for use in the maintenance and operation section of the budget in the budget year. The amo…

A. The base support level for each career technical education district shall be computed as follows: Grade/ Support Student Weighted Category Level Count Student Weight Count 9-12 1.339 x ________ = ________ B. Multiply the total determined in subsection A of this section by the …

The English learner classroom personnel bonus fund is established consisting of monies appropriated for this purpose. The department of education shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. Applications from school districts and charter schools fo…

A. The base revenue control limit for each school district for fiscal year 1980-1981 is computed as follows: 1. Add the amounts in the fiscal year 1979-1980 budget effective May 15, 1980 for general operating and special education. 2. Subtract the following budgeted revenues from…

Beginning January 1, 1990, no school district is permitted to budget for items that are exempt either in whole or in part from the revenue control limit and that are funded by revenues generated by a levy of taxes on the taxable property in the school district, except that a scho…

A. The support level for to and from school for each school district for the current year shall be computed as follows: 1. Determine the approved daily route mileage of the school district for the fiscal year prior to the current year. 2. Multiply the figure obtained in paragraph…

A. The transportation revenue control limit for each school district for the fiscal years 1985-1986, 1986-1987 and 1987-1988 is computed as follows: 1. Determine the adopted operational expenditure budget for pupil transportation for the fiscal year 1984-1985 effective January 1,…

A. The revenue control limit for a school district is equal to the sum of the base revenue control limit determined in section 15-944 and the transportation revenue control limit determined in section 15-946. B. The district support level for a school district is equal to the sum…

A. The revenue control limit for a career technical education district is equal to the base support level determined in section 15-943.02. B. The general budget limit for each career technical education district, for each fiscal year, is the sum of the following: 1. The revenue c…