A. Each school district, within twelve days after the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, shall certify to the superintendent of public instruction, in an electronic format as prescribed by the department of education, the following:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-922

  • Current year: means the fiscal year in which a school district is operating. See Arizona Laws 15-901
  • Daily route mileage: means the sum of:

    (a) The total number of miles driven daily by all buses of a school district while transporting eligible students from their residence to the school of attendance and from the school of attendance to their residence on scheduled routes approved by the superintendent of public instruction. See Arizona Laws 15-901

  • Eligible students: means :

    (a) Students who are transported by or for a school district and who qualify as full-time students or fractional students, except students for whom transportation is paid by another school district or a county school superintendent, and:

    (i) For common school students, whose place of actual residence within the school district is more than one mile from the school facility of attendance or students who are admitted pursuant to Section 15-816. See Arizona Laws 15-901

  • 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

1. The daily route mileage of the school district in the current year. The route mileage shall not include more than thirty miles each way to and from the school of attendance or to and from a pickup point on a regular transportation route to transport eligible students who reside in nonadjacent school districts.

2. The route mileage of the school district in the current year transporting eligible students for extended school year services in accordance with section 15-881.

3. The number of eligible students transported during the current year.

B. A school district shall meet the requirements of this section to receive state aid. The superintendent of public instruction may withhold a school district’s apportionment of state aid if the superintendent of public instruction determines that the school district is not complying with the requirements of this section. A school district may include in the calculation of daily route mileage any vehicle that meets the definition of a school bus prescribed in this section or any motor vehicle described in section 15-925. The department of education shall not deny transportation funding or state aid for a school district that transports pupils in any vehicle that meets the definition of a school bus prescribed in this section or any motor vehicle described in section 15-925.

C. For the purposes of this article and section 15-901, "school bus" or "bus" means a school bus as defined in section 28-101, except that the passenger capacity standards prescribed in that section do not apply.

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