This amendment replaces the original bill with a new approach that creates a dedicated career and technical education funding stream based on FTE teachers rather than modifying the education resource block grant model formula.
- Deletes previous Senate and committee amendments and removes all original bill language, replacing it with new statutory provisions. (Page 1, lines 1-3; Pages 1-5, lines 4-14 and throughout)
- Creates a new statute (W.S. 21-13-338) establishing a separate career and technical education supplies, materials, and equipment funding mechanism outside the education resource block grant model, effective for school year 2025-2026. (Page 6, lines 1-10 and continuing to Page 2, line 39)
- Funding is calculated based on the number of FTE career and technical education teachers: $14,184.68 per FTE teacher, or a minimum of $28,369.36 for schools with fewer than two FTE teachers, subject to external cost adjustments. (Page 1-2, lines 1-19)
- Establishes reporting and payment timelines requiring districts to report teacher FTE by October 15 and receive payment by February 15 of each school year, with districts required to report expenditures to the department. (Page 2, lines 21-32)
- Amends W.S. 21-12-105(b) to clarify that demonstration project grants are in addition to the new career and technical education funding under W.S. 21-13-338, and makes districts receiving funds under W.S. 21-13-337 ineligible for demonstration grants. (Page 2, lines 40-16)
- Amends W.S. 21-13-337(a) and (c) to make the new dedicated funding stream under W.S. 21-13-338 an additional source and clarifies that equipment grants require districts to expend amounts generated under the new section before applying for further grants. (Page 3, lines 38-31)
- Updates the education resource block grant model component (ATTACHMENT 'A'(b)(xxv)) to remove the alternative funding formula and establish a single rate of $9,428.77 per FTE vocational career and technical education teacher. (Page 4, lines 33-6)
- Repeals W.S. 21-13-309(m)(v)(D)(III), which was the original FTE vocational teacher computation within the education resource block grant model. (Page 4, lines 8)
- Repeals 2011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185, ATTACHMENT 'A'(a)(iii)(D), removing an obsolete provision related to the cost of education study. (Page 4, lines 10-12)
- Appropriates $4,990,631.00 from the public school foundation program account for career and technical education supplies, equipment, and replacement payments for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, with intent to include this in the standard budget for the following biennium. (Page 4-5, lines 14-27)Agency: Department of Education-School Finance · $4,990,631.00 Public School Foundation Program Account
- Sets the effective date of all amendments to July 1, 2025. (Page 5, line 27)
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