At-risk program units

A. A school district or charter school is eligible for additional program units if it establishes within its department-approved educational plan identified services to assist students to reach their full academic potential. A school district or charter school receiving additional at-risk program units shall include a report of specified services implemented to improve the academic success of at-risk students. The report shall identify the ways in which the school district, charter school and individual public schools use funding generated through the at-risk index and the intended outcomes. For purposes of this section, "at-risk student" means a student who meets the criteria to be included in the calculation of the three-year average rate in Subsection B of this section. The number of additional units to which a school district or charter school is entitled under this section is computed in the following manner: At-Risk Index x MEM = Units where MEM is equal to the total district or charter school membership, including early childhood education, full-time-equivalent membership and special education membership and where the at-risk index is calculated in the following manner: Three-Year Average Rate x 0.40 = At-Risk Index. B. To calculate the three-year average rate, the department shall compute the preceding three-year average of the school district's or charter school's family income index rate. C. The department shall recalculate the at-risk index for each school district and charter school every year. D. For purposes of this section, "services" means research-based or evidence- based social, emotional or academic interventions, such as: (1) case management, tutoring, reading interventions and after-school programs that are delivered by social workers, counselors, teachers or other professional staff; (2) culturally relevant professional and curriculum development, including those necessary to support language acquisition, bilingual and multicultural education; (3) additional compensation strategies for high-need schools; (4) whole school interventions, including school-based health centers and community schools; (5) educational programming intended to improve career and college readiness of at-risk students, including dual or concurrent enrollment, career and technical education, guidance counseling services and coordination with post- secondary institutions; and (6) services to engage and support parents and families in the education of students. History: 1978 Comp., § 22-8-23.3, enacted by Laws 1997, ch. 40, § 7; 2002, ch. 68, § 1; 2014, ch. 55, § 1; 2018, ch. 55, § 4; 2019, ch. 206, § 15; 2019, ch. 207, § 15; 2020, ch. 23, § 1; 2023, ch. 148, § 1; 2025, ch. 89, § 5.