44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999
RELATING TO EDUCATION; ALLOWING 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
4,000 - MEM x 0.15 x MEM = Units
4,000
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] 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:
4,000 - 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.--Five million three hundred thousand dollars ($5,300,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 to fund additional program units generated by alternative schools size adjustment program units. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund.