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The mandated minimum program level shall be determined annually by the board of regents for elementary and secondary education upon recommendation of the commissioner.

(a) The standard local tax rate required to support the basic program shall be forty percent (40%). (b) The statewide local tax rate to be used in calculating each community’s share under § 16-7-20 shall be fifty percent (50%). (c) Fifty percent (50%) of the difference resulting …

(a) Any school committee in a municipality, or regional school district with an elected school committee, may by resolution to the retirement board, and the chief executive officer in any municipality with an appointed school committee may by order to the retirement board, as a r…

(a) For each community the state’s share shall be computed as follows: Let Then the state share entitlement for the community shall be RE where R = 1 – 0.5vM/(Vm) through June 30, 2011, and R = 1 – 0.475 vM/(Vm) beginning on July 1, 2011 and thereafter. Except that in no case sha…

The director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals shall annually report on the first day of September to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education the number of children with disabilities affected by § 16-7-20 and the e…

For each regional school district, a state share shall be computed and multiplied by the reference year cost, as defined under § 16-7-16(11), of the basic program, as defined under § 16-7-16(3). The state share shall equal two percent (2%) for each grade so consolidated for the f…

On or before August 1 of each year the division of property valuation within the department of revenue shall determine and certify to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education the equalized weighted assessed valuation for each city and town in the following manner: (…

Each community shall be paid pursuant to the provisions of § 16-7-17 an amount based upon the following provisions: (1) On or before September 1 of each year the average daily membership of each city and town for the reference year shall be determined by the commissioner of eleme…

(a) The school committee’s budget provisions of each community for current expenditures in each budget year shall provide for an amount from all sources sufficient to support the basic program and all other approved programs shared by the state. Each community shall contribute lo…

(a) Any community that has a local appropriation that funds at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the basic education program shall be defined as a high local contribution community. A high local contribution community that has provided full funding of the basic education program…

A city, town, or regional school district appropriating authority may appropriate supplemental funds to eliminate or reduce a school budget deficit. To the extent that such a supplemental appropriation represents payment of past annual expenditure, the payment shall not be used i…

Each community shall appropriate or otherwise make available to the school committee for approved school expenditures during each school year, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the school committee of that community, an amount, which, together with state educa…

The school committee in each community shall operate the schools each year on an appropriate level at least as adequate as the minimum established in §§ 16-7-15 to 16-7-34.

The taxing authority in every city and town of the state shall record upon the individual tax notices the tax rate which is apportioned for school purposes separate from the tax rate which is apportioned for municipal purposes and the total of these two (2) tax rates.

The communities shall provide for the keeping of separate revenue and expenditure records for all school purposes including capital expenditures on any forms and in any manner that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education may prescribe.

(a) Every municipality and regional school district shall establish and put into full effect by appropriate action of its school committee in a municipality or regional school district where the school committee is elected, or by appropriate action of the chief executive officer,…

A community not maintaining a high school shall make provision for the free attendance of its children at some high school or academy approved by the state board of regents for elementary and secondary education.

If any community shall fail to maintain local appropriation or fail to appropriate or otherwise make available to the school committee the minimum sums provided in this chapter, including specifically but without limitation the minimum salary schedule as established in § 16-7-29,…

The commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall annually review actual expenditures in each school year and in case any community fails to adequately support the programs shared by the state, as provided in §§ 16-7-15 to 16-7-34, the commissioner shall inquire into t…

The commissioner of elementary and secondary education is directed to evaluate the operation of this chapter, and at least once every three (3) years the state board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall review the findings of the commissioner of elementary and …

The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum that it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 16-5-31 and 16-7-15 to 16-7-34; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of this sum, o…

The general assembly shall appropriate to the board of regents for elementary and secondary education the sums that it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section for distribution to local and regional school districts on the basis of the ratio which the children wi…

(a) Each school district shall be reimbursed for expenditures for services and instructional programs for students residing in conventional public housing units owned by public housing authorities which are not on local tax rolls. Reimbursement shall be made when the services and…

Sections 16-7-35 to 16-7-47 are designed to: (1) Guarantee adequate school housing for all public school children in the state, and (2) Prevent the cost of school housing from interfering with the effective operation of the schools.

The following words and phrases used in §§ 16-7-35 to 16-7-47 have the following meanings: (1) “Adjusted equalized weighted assessed valuation” means the equalized weighted assessed valuation for a community as determined by the division of property valuation within the departmen…

The superintendent of schools in each community shall certify to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education by the dates designated in accordance with the regulations of the board of regents for elementary and secondary education any information that may be needed for…

There shall be paid on September 15 and March 15 of each year one-half (½) of the amount to which each community is entitled in terms of the computation in § 16-7-41.

For each community, the percent of state aid for school housing costs shall be computed in the following manner: (1) The adjusted equalized weighted assessed valuation for the district is divided by the resident average daily membership for the district (grades twelve (12) and be…

(a)(1) In the case of regional school districts, the school housing aid ratio shall be increased by two percent (2%) for each grade so consolidated. (2) Regional school districts undertaking renovation project(s) shall receive an increased share ratio of four percent (4%) for tho…

(a) In each fiscal year the state shall pay to each community a grant to be applied to the cost of school housing equal to the following: The cost of each new school housing project certified to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education not later than July 15 of the …

(a) School districts, not municipalities, may apply for and obtain approval for a project under the necessity of school construction process set forth in the regulations of the council on elementary and secondary education, provided, however, in the case of a municipality that is…

In the computations of §§ 16-7-35 — 16-7-47, only that portion of the cost of school housing projects for which no aid has been received from the federal government under the provision of any present or subsequent federal legislation shall be used. In the computations of §§ 16-7-…

School housing project costs, the date of completion of school housing projects, and the applicable amount of school housing project cost commitments shall be in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner of elementary and secondary education and the provisions of §§ 16-…

Housing aid shall not be provided for the purchase of furniture, fixtures and equipment except in the case of a project to construct a new school or new school addition that is also supported by a general obligation or lease revenue bond. Housing aid shall not be provided for pro…

(a) If an audit or subsequent review by the commissioner of elementary and secondary education determines that a community was overpaid school housing aid, the community shall repay the determined amount over a number of years that is calculated by dividing the total amount of th…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate those sums that it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 16-7-35 to 16-7-47, and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum, or so muc…

The provisions of §§ 16-7-35 to 16-7-47 shall be in addition to any and all state aid for education as provided in any other general or special law.

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education is constituted and designated as the state board for vocational education to cooperate with the federal office of education and veterans administration, or their successors, in the administration of any act of congress r…

All public elementary and secondary schools shall be required to make federally reimbursable lunches available to students attending those schools through the USDA’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in accordance with federal regulation as well as rules and regulations adopte…

(a) All public elementary and secondary schools shall be required to make federally reimbursable school breakfasts available to students attending those schools through the USDA’s School Breakfast Program (SBP) in accordance with federal regulation as well as rules and regulation…

No school board or school receiving aid under this chapter for school lunch programs shall negotiate, extend, or renew any school lunch service contract unless the contract provides for payments to school-lunch workers and aides for one hundred and eighty (180) days or the length…

The department of elementary and secondary education shall prescribe regulations for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school boards. These accounts and records shall be available for inspection and audit by authorized ag…

The department of elementary and secondary education is authorized, to the extent that funds are available for these purposes, and in cooperation with local school boards and other appropriate organizations, to conduct studies as to methods of improving and expanding school lunch…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate some sum that it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 16-8-7 to 16-8-12; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum or so much o…

Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, any and all money received or that may be received by the state for the use or benefit of the state or any city or town for educational purposes from appropriations made by virtue of or under any act or acts of the congress of the Un…

For FY 2012 only, state general revenue appropriations to all local education agencies — including school districts, charter schools, and state schools — shall be reduced by the amount allocated to each local education agency under the terms of the federal Education Jobs Fund pro…