Effective 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 to charter schools with 2,000 or fewer students in the amount of the greater of $40,000 or $115 per student.

Terms Used In Utah Code 53F-2-706 v2

  • 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
(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 467, 2023 General Session