§ 16199 Pilot Programs For Disabled Students

This law lets the state give money to up to four school districts to build and equip special programs for physically disabled children, sets rules for who can get the money, and tells how they must pay it back if most of the students aren’t from their own district.

Key Takeaways

•The state can fund up to four districts for special‑needs facilities and equipment.
•Districts must meet standards set by the Superintendent, like what will be taught and who will be served.
•The pilot program only ran from the 1972‑73 school year to the end of the 1974‑75 school year.
•Even districts that serve more than 8,000 students can get the money.
•If 50% or more of the students using the new facilities are from other districts, the funding district must repay the whole amount the next year.
•Districts can split repayment costs with other districts based on how many of their students use the program.

Example

A small school district asks for state money to build a wheelchair‑accessible classroom for kids with physical disabilities. The state picks the district, but most of the kids who use the room come from a neighboring larger district.

Because more than half of the students using the new classroom are from another district, the small district has to repay the full amount of the state money the next year, and the two districts can share that repayment based on how many students each sent.

The State Department of Education may accept applications by school districts for the construction of facilities and the purchase of essential furniture and equipment, under a pilot project to maintain regional programs for physically exceptional children. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall establish standards with respect to the regional programs for the pilot project which shall include, among other things, the curriculum to be offered, the area to be served, and the supervision and instruction with respect to the programs. Of the school district applicants which meet the standards established, the State Department of Education may designate not more than four school districts to receive apportionments as part of the pilot project to maintain regional programs for physically exceptional children. The pilot project pursuant to this act shall begin with the 1972–1973 school year and shall terminate at the end of the 1974–1975 school year. The State Department of Education shall provide for state evaluation of the pilot project. With respect to school districts selected as part of the pilot project, the State Allocation Board may approve applications and make apportionments pursuant to Section 16196, notwithstanding that the school district is serving a district or districts with an average daily attendance in excess of 8,000. In any school year in which 50 percent or more of the pupils in average daily attendance, as determined by the county superintendent of schools, and served by the facilities are not pupils from districts other than the applicant district, the repayment for the succeeding fiscal year shall be an amount which would have been payable if the district had been required to repay 100 percent of the apportionment over that period. The districts participating in a pilot project may include in interdistrict attendance agreements the cost of making repayments in the same proportion to the total repayment as the number of pupils enrolled from each district bears to the total number of pupils enrolled. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)

Key Takeaways

•The state can fund up to four districts for special‑needs facilities and equipment.
•Districts must meet standards set by the Superintendent, like what will be taught and who will be served.
•The pilot program only ran from the 1972‑73 school year to the end of the 1974‑75 school year.
•Even districts that serve more than 8,000 students can get the money.
•If 50% or more of the students using the new facilities are from other districts, the funding district must repay the whole amount the next year.
•Districts can split repayment costs with other districts based on how many of their students use the program.

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