Arizona Laws 15-1284. Separate local-level funds; annual reporting; no supplanting
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1284
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Charter school: means a public school established by contract with the state board of education, the state board for charter schools, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college district or a group of community college districts pursuant to article 8 of this chapter to provide learning that will improve pupil achievement. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- School district: means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies)
A. Each school district and charter school that receives monies from the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 shall establish a separate local level fund to receive monies from that fund. This subsection applies to the state education system for committed youth and the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind.
B. Each school district, charter school and career technical education district that receives monies from the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 shall establish a separate local-level fund to receive monies from that fund.
C. School districts, charter schools and career technical education districts that receive monies from either the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 or the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 shall provide:
1. An accounting of monies received from those funds each fiscal year through the uniform system of financial records.
2. Information regarding classroom teacher salaries for each fiscal year through the uniform system of financial records, including the average classroom teacher salary, the average salary for a first-year classroom teacher, and the average salaries for classroom teachers in their fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth years of teaching in the school district, charter school or career technical education district.
D. The department of education and the auditor general shall allow the additional reporting required by subsection C of this section through the uniform system of financial records and the Arizona chart of accounts.
E. Notwithstanding any other law, the additional monies received by school districts, charter schools and career technical education districts from the student support and safety fund established by section 15-1281 and the career training and workforce fund established by section 15-1282 are in addition to any other appropriation, transfer or allocation of public or private monies from any other source and may not supplant, replace or cause a reduction in other funding sources.