Delaware General Assembly

Signed 7/30/21

The General Assembly has ended, the current status is the final status.

1/27/21

K. Williams

Reps. Chukwuocha, Schwartzkopf, Longhurst, Mitchell, Bolden, Bush, Carson, Heffernan, Kowalko, Lynn, Matthews, S. Moore, Morrison, Osienski, Ramone, Michael Smith, Wilson-Anton
Sen. Poore, Sturgeon, Lockman, Paradee, Sokola, Townsend, Walsh

Reps. Baumbach, Bennett, Bentz, Brady, Cooke, Dorsey Walker, Griffith, K. Johnson, Lambert, Minor-Brown
Sen. Ennis, Gay, Hansen, Mantzavinos, S. McBride, Pinkney

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING.

This Act provides increased funding for kindergarten through third grade students identified as eligible for basic special education services. Currently, basic special education is provided for students in fourth through twelfth grade who are identified as eligible for basic special education and related services; there is no additional unit funding for students in kindergarten through third grade who may be eligible for basic special education services. The Act adds a designation of “K-3 Basic Special Education (basic)” and over three years reduces the number of students comprising a unit from the current 16.2 to 8.4. This Act will increase the unit count funding for K-3 Basic Special Education (basic) students by School Year 2023-2024, Fiscal Year 2024, to be consistent with the 8.4 unit of pupils currently available to students in grades 4 through 12. Sections 1 through 3 of this Act change the funding chart currently in the Code to subsections and provides for a decrease in the ratio between the number of students enrolled and the unit count for basic special education from 16.2 currently to 12.2 in Fiscal Year 2022, 10.2 in Fiscal Year 2023, and 8.4 in Fiscal Year 2024. Section 4 of this Act delays the effect of each Section until the start of each new fiscal year in the 3-year cycle over which this Act’s changes are intended to occur.

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7/1/21; 7/1/22; 7/1/23

6/30/22; 6/30/23

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