Provides for an apportionment to the Yonkers city school district based upon universal prekindergarten enrollment.

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S1011-2011 Actions

• Jan 20, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 1011A
• Jan 20, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

S1011-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1011

TITLE OF BILL:

An act
to provide an apportionment to the Yonkers city school district based
upon universal prekindergarten enrollment

PURPOSE:

To provide the Yonkers City School District with additional aid equal
to the District's Universal Prekindergarten enrollment for the
2009-2010 school year multiplied by the difference between the
District's selected Foundation Aid per pupil and the District's
Universal Prekindergarten Grant per pupil.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill would add a new section to unconsolidated law to provide the
Yonkers City School District with additional aid equivalent to the
District's 2009-2010 Universal Prekindergarten enrollment multiplied
by the difference between the District's selected Foundation Aid per
pupil and the District's Universal Prekindergarten Grant per pupil.

JUSTIFICATION:

The Yonkers City School District has a fully implemented Universal
Prekindergarten Program in its schools that has been regarded as a
model for other districts and had a significant positive impact on
improving student performance in the District. This measure would
provide additional aid to the District in support of their commitment
to serving the needs of its prekindergarten population totaling $4.8
million.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2010 - S.7190 (Passed Senate)

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
$4.8 million to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S1011-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    1011

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
    and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

  AN ACT to provide an apportionment to the Yonkers city  school  district
    based upon universal prekindergarten enrollment

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


    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
  effective July 1, 2011, there shall be  an  apportionment  made  to  the
  Yonkers  city  school  district,  and such apportionment shall be for an
  amount equivalent to the base year total  of  universal  prekindergarten
  pupils served multiplied by the value calculated by subtracting from the
  selected  foundation  aid per pupil, the quotient calculated by dividing
  the base year universal prekindergarten grant by the base year total  of
  universal prekindergarten pupils.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD04597-01-1