Nebraska Statutes > Chapter 79 > § 79-1007.01 - School fiscal years prior to 2008-09; adjusted formula students for local system; calculation
Current as of: 2010 For state aid calculated for school fiscal years prior to 2008-09: (1) The adjusted formula students for each local system shall be calculated by: (a) Multiplying the formula students in each grade range by the corresponding weighting factors to calculate the weighted formula students for each grade range as follows: (i) The weighting factor for early childhood education programs is six-tenths; (ii) The weighting factor for kindergarten is five-tenths; (iii) The weighting factor for grades one through six, including full-day kindergarten, is one; (iv) The weighting factor for grades seven and eight is one and two-tenths; and (v) The weighting factor for grades nine through twelve is one and four-tenths; (b) Adding the weighted formula students for each grade range to calculate the weighted formula students for the local system; and (c) Adjusting the weighted formula students by adding the following demographic factors: (i) The Indian-land factor shall equal 0.25 times the average daily attendance of students who reside on Indian land as reported by the United States Department of Education in calculating the local system's payment pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 7701 et seq., as such sections existed on April 12, 2002; (ii) The limited English proficiency factor shall equal 0.25 times the students in the local system with limited English proficiency as defined under 20 U.S.C. 7601, as such section existed on April 12, 2002; (iii) The department shall calculate the number of formula students to whom the poverty factor shall apply. The department shall calculate a ratio of the formula students to the total children under nineteen years of age residing in the local system and shall apply the ratio to the low-income children within the local system, in order to determine the number of low-income students within such local system. The number of children under nineteen years of age used in this calculation shall be derived from income tax information. The poverty factor shall equal the number of low-income students or the formula students qualified for free lunches or free milk under United States Department of Agriculture child nutrition programs, whichever is greater, multiplied by the following factors: (A) 0 for the qualified formula students comprising the first five percent of the formula students in the local system; (B) 0.05 for the qualified formula students comprising more than five percent and not more than ten percent of the formula students in the local system; (C) 0.10 for the qualified formula students comprising more than ten percent and not more than fifteen percent of the formula students in the local system; (D) 0.15 for the qualified formula students comprising more than fifteen percent and not more than twenty percent of the formula students in the local system; (E) 0.20 for the qualified formula students comprising more than twenty percent and not more than twenty-five percent of the formula students in the local system; (F) 0.25 for the qualified formula students comprising more than twenty-five percent and not more than thirty percent of the formula students in the local system; and (G) 0.30 for the qualified formula students comprising more than thirty percent of the formula students in the local system; and (iv) The extreme remoteness factor shall equal 0.125 times the formula students in the local system for each local system that has fewer than two hundred formula students, more than six hundred square miles in the local system, less than three-tenths formula student per square mile in the local system, and more than twenty-five miles between the high school attendance center and the next closest high school attendance center on paved roads; and (2) The total adjusted formula students for each local system shall equal the weighted formula students plus the demographic factors, except that (a) for local systems qualifying for the extreme remoteness factor, the total adjusted formula students shall be greater than or equal to one hundred fifty adjusted formula students, (b) the total adjusted formula students for a local system shall not include the extreme remoteness factor or any adjustment to the adjusted formula students resulting from qualification for the extreme remoteness factor for the calculation of the average formula cost per student in each cost grouping pursuant to subdivision (2) of section 79-1007.02, and (c) the total adjusted formula students for a local system shall include the extreme remoteness factor and any adjustment to the adjusted formula students resulting from qualification for the extreme remoteness factor for the calculation of the local system's formula need pursuant to subdivision (3) of section 79-1007.02.
Laws 1997, LB 710, § 9; Laws 1997, LB 806, § 35; Laws 1998, Spec. Sess., LB 1, § 17; Laws 2001, LB 797, § 19; Laws 2002, LB 898, § 6; Laws 2005, LB 577, § 2; Laws 200 ________________________________________________________________________
Questions & Answers: Primary and Secondary SchoolsSee also: U.S. Code Provisions: Primary and Secondary SchoolsFederal Regulations: Primary and Secondary Schools
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