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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 6, 2014
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  salaries  of
  certain  teachers  and  aids  employed by boards of cooperative educa-
  tional services

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5 of section 1950 of the educa-
tion law, as amended by section 80-a of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  b. The cost of services herein referred to shall be the  amount  allo-
cated  to  each  component  school  district by the board of cooperative
educational services to defray expenses of such board, except that  that
part of the salary paid any teacher, supervisor or other employee of the
board  of  cooperative educational services which is in excess of thirty
thousand dollars shall not be such an approved expense, and except  also
that  administrative  and clerical expenses shall not exceed ten percent
of the total expenses for purposes of this computation. PROVIDED, HOWEV-
ER, BEGINNING WITH EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE  TWO  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN-TWO
THOUSAND  FIFTEEN  SCHOOL  YEAR  AND THEREAFTER, THAT PART OF THE SALARY
PAID TO ANY TEACHER, SUPERVISOR OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF A BOARD OF  COOPER-
ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES WHICH IS IN EXCESS OF THE LESSER OF THE ACTU-
AL  SALARY OR THE AVERAGE STATEWIDE SALARY FOR SUCH TEACHING, SUPERVISO-
RY, OR OTHER POSITION AS ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT BE AN
APPROVED EXPENSE, AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT ADMINISTRATIVE AND  CLERICAL
EXPENSES SHALL NOT EXCEED TEN PERCENT OF THE TOTAL EXPENSES FOR PURPOSES
OF  THIS  COMPUTATION.  Any  gifts,  donations or interest earned by the
board of cooperative educational services or on behalf of the  board  of
cooperative educational services by the dormitory authority or any other
source  shall  not be deducted in determining the cost of services allo-
cated to each component school district. Any payments made to  a  compo-
nent  school  district  by the board of cooperative educational services
pursuant to subdivision eleven of section six-p of the general municipal
law attributable to an approved cost of  service  computed  pursuant  to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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this  subdivision  shall be deducted from the cost of services allocated
to such component  school  district.    The  expense  of  transportation
provided  by  the  board of cooperative educational services pursuant to
paragraph  q  of  subdivision four of this section shall be eligible for
aid apportioned pursuant to  subdivision  seven  of  section  thirty-six
hundred  two  of  this  chapter  and no board of cooperative educational
services transportation expense shall be an approved  cost  of  services
for  the  computation  of  aid  under  this  subdivision. Transportation
expense pursuant to paragraph q of  subdivision  four  of  this  section
shall  be  included  in the computation of the ten percent limitation on
administrative and clerical expenses.
  S 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 10 of section 3602  of  the  education
law,  as  amended  by  section 16 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
2007, is amended to read as follows:
  b. Aid for career education. There shall be apportioned to  such  city
school districts and other school districts which were not components of
a  board of cooperative educational services in the base year for pupils
in grades ten through twelve in attendance in career education  programs
as  such  programs  are  defined  by  the  commissioner, subject for the
purposes of this paragraph to the approval of the director of the  budg-
et,  an  amount  for  each  such pupil to be computed by multiplying the
career education aid ratio by [three thousand nine hundred dollars]  THE
DISTRICT'S SELECTED FOUNDATION AID AS DETERMINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
FOUR  OF  THIS  SECTION.  Such  aid  will be payable for weighted pupils
attending career education programs operated by the school district  and
for  weighted pupils for whom such school district contracts with boards
of cooperative educational services to attend career education  programs
operated by a board of cooperative educational services. Weighted pupils
for  the purposes of this paragraph shall mean the sum of the attendance
of students in grades ten through twelve in career  education  sequences
in  trade,  industrial,  technical, agricultural or health programs plus
the product of  sixteen  hundredths  multiplied  by  the  attendance  of
students  in  grades ten through twelve in career education sequences in
business and marketing as defined by the  commissioner  in  regulations.
The career education aid ratio shall be computed by subtracting from one
the  product  obtained by multiplying fifty-nine percent by the combined
wealth ratio. This aid ratio shall be expressed as a decimal carried  to
three places without rounding, but not less than thirty-six percent.
  Any school district that receives aid pursuant to this paragraph shall
be  required  to use such amount to support career education programs in
the current year.
  A board of education which spends less than its local funds as defined
by regulations of the commissioner for career education in the base year
during the current year shall have its apportionment under this subdivi-
sion reduced in an amount equal to such deficiency in the current  or  a
succeeding school year, provided however that the commissioner may waive
such reduction upon determination that overall expenditures per pupil in
support  of career education programs were continued at a level equal to
or greater than the level of such overall expenditures per pupil in  the
preceding school year.
  S  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the
calculation of BOCES aid and aid for career  education  payable  in  the
2015-16 school year and years thereafter.