Superseded 7/1/2023)

Superseded 7/1/2023
53F-2-706.  Small charter school base funding.

(1)  Subject to legislative appropriation, the state board shall distribute small charter school base funding in the following amounts to charter schools with 2,000 or less students:

Terms Used In Utah Code 53F-2-706

  • 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
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(a)  for a charter school with 300 students or less, $40,000;

(b)  for a charter school with 301 to 400 students, $35,000;

(c)  for a charter school with 401 to 500 students, $30,000;

(d)  for a charter school with 501 to 600 students, $25,000;

(e)  for a charter school with 601 to 1,000 students, $20,000; and

(f)  for a charter school with 1,001 to 2,000 students, $15,000.

(2)  A charter school’s eligibility for small charter school base funding is determined by the charter school’s student enrollment on October 1 of a given year.

(3)  Notwithstanding this section and subject to legislative appropriations, the state board may distribute to charter schools, regardless of size, one-time funding that the Legislature appropriates to mitigate funding losses as described in legislative appropriations.

Amended by Chapter 439, 2021 General Session