Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary: I. A school district which operates kindergarten in any school year in which the adequate education grant provided pursuant to RSA 198:42 does not include a count of kindergarten students, shall receive an additional adequate education grant based on the number of pupils attending kindergarten in the district as of the beginning of the school year. II. The per pupil amount of the additional education grant provided in this section shall be $1,200 for the 2008 school year. Starting in the school year that commences in the fall of 2009, a school district which operates kindergarten in any school year in which the adequate education grant provided pursuant to RSA 198:42 does not include a count of kindergarten students, shall receive an additional adequate education grant calculated pursuant to the adequate education grant formula provided in RSA 198 based on the number of pupils attending kindergarten in the district as of the beginning of the school year. Once pupils enrolled in an approved kindergarten program have been counted in the average daily membership, school districts shall receive, for each such pupil, an adequate education grant calculated in accordance with RSA 198:41 and RSA 198:42. School districts that receive kindergarten adequate education grants under this section shall not be eligible to receive any other per pupil adequate education grant.
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