SPONSOR:	Rep. K. Williams & Sen. Blevins
	Reps. Baumbach, Bennett, Bolden, Brady, J. Johnson, Keeley, Kowalko, Matthews, Mulrooney, Osienski, Potter; Sen. Townsend

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

148th GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 28

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend § 509(j), Title 14 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions shown by underline as follows:

(j) If after September 30, a pupil ceases to be enrolled in a charter school and is thereafter enrolled in a reorganized school district for the balance of the fiscal year, nothing contained in this section shall prevent a charter school which has received any funding for the student and shall pay to the school district in which the student is subsequently enrolled from entering into an agreement providing for the proration of student funding between or among the charter school and the school district in which the student is subsequently enrolled. Funding in any subsequent fiscal year shall be as otherwise provided in this Code.

Section 2. This Act shall become effective beginning with the fiscal year after its enactment.

SYNOPSIS

Absent an agreement with the school district, charter schools are currently able to retain any funding received for the fiscal year for a student who transfers mid-year from the charter school to a school district. This bill mandates that, if a student transfers from a charter school to a school district after September 30^th, such funds will be prorated between the charter school and the school district where the student is then enrolled.