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1 S.117
2 Introduced by Senator Perchlik
3 Referred to Committee on
4 Date:
5 Subject: Education; approved education programs; teen parent program
6 funding
7 Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to allow teen
8 parent education programs to receive 100 percent of the prior year’s statewide
9 average net cost per pupil from the pupil’s school district of residence. It also
10 proposes to eliminate the requirement that a sending school district reimburse a
11 receiving school for the cost of coordinating a pregnant or parenting pupil’s
12 education plan at a teen parent education program.
13 An act relating to teen parent education program funding
14 It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:
15 Sec. 1. 2008 Acts and Resolves No. 192, Sec. 5.304.1 is amended to read:
16 Sec. 5.304.1. PREGNANT AND PARENTING PUPILS ATTENDING
17 TEEN PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAMS
18 (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, a school
19 district of residence shall make the following payments for a publicly funded
20 pregnant or parenting pupil attending a teen parent education program:
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1 (1) The school district shall pay the teen parent education program 83
2 percent of the prior year’s statewide average net cost per pupil, as calculated
3 under 16 V.S.A. § 825 minus debt service, prorated based on the pupil’s full-
4 time equivalent enrollment, as defined by state board rule, in academic courses
5 at the teen parent education program, provided that, notwithstanding Agency
6 of Education, Full-Time Equivalent Enrollment of Pupils (CVR 003-000-
7 9200), rule 9200.3, or any other provision of law to the contrary, if a pupil
8 attending a teen parent education program is absent due to giving and
9 recovering from birth, those absences shall not be counted in any proration of
10 the pupil’s full-time equivalent enrollment.
11 (2) If the district of residence does not maintain a school, the otherwise
12 qualified pregnant or parenting pupil may enroll in any public school or
13 approved independent school (the “enrolling school”) in which any other legal
14 pupil in the district of residence may enroll at public expense. In this situation,
15 the district of residence shall reimburse the enrolling school for coordinating
16 the pregnant or parenting pupil’s education plan at the teen parent education
17 program and for planning and facilitating the pupil’s subsequent education
18 plan and transition to the enrolling school, at a rate of 17 percent of the prior
19 year’s statewide average net cost per pupil, as calculated under 16 V.S.A.
20 § 825 minus debt service, prorated, for the year in which the pupil attends the
21 teen parent education program.
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2 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE
3 This act shall take effect on July 1, 2023.
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