A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a single reporting bill on department of education spending allocations, including fair student funding, for schools citywide

Int. No.

By Council Members Treyger, Torres, and Dromm

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a single reporting bill on department of education spending allocations, including fair student funding, for schools citywide

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 21 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 21

REPORTING ON SPENDING ALLOCATIONS

§ 21-989. Reporting on spending allocations. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning:

Fair student funding formula. The term “fair student funding formula” means the formula that determines each school’s funding allocation under fair student funding.

School. The term "school" means any public school in the city of New York under the jurisdiction of the department of education that contains any combination of grades from and including kindergarten through grade twelve.

b. The department of education, or the office of management and budget, shall submit to the speaker of the council and post conspicuously on the department’s website and open data portal a single report that shall include:

1. All school-level budget allocations for each school; and

2. The calculated fair student funding formula for each school, and the percentage of such calculated fair student funding formula result that each school is actually allocated.

c. The information contained in the report required by this section shall be in a searchable, sortable, and machine-readable format.

d. The report shall be submitted and posted three times annually, reporting on the school year as follows:

1. April 30, to report on the upcoming school year;

2. September 31, to report on the prior school year and the current school year; and

3. January 31, to report on the current school year.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

SIL

LS # 6250, 5691, 6465

05/29/18