(a) Except as provided in (b) – (e) of this section, if, in fiscal year 1999, a city or borough school district or a regional educational attendance area would receive less public school funding under Alaska Stat. § 14.17.410 than the district or area would have received as state aid, the district or area is, in each fiscal year, eligible to receive additional public school funding equal to the difference between the public school funding the district or area was eligible to receive under Alaska Stat. § 14.17.410 in fiscal year 1999 and the state aid the district or area would have received in fiscal year 1999.

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 14.17.490

  • attendance area: means the geographic area designated by the department to be served by a school. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) A city or borough school district is not eligible for additional funding authorized under (a) of this section unless, during the fiscal year in which the district receives funding under (a) of this section, the district received a local contribution equal to at least the equivalent of a 2.65 mill tax levy on the full and true value of the taxable real and personal property in the district as of January 1 of the second preceding fiscal year as determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development under AS 14.17.510 and AS 29.45.110.
(c) For the purposes of the reduction required under Alaska Stat. § 14.17.400(b), funding authorized under (a) of this section is treated the same as the state share of public school funding under Alaska Stat. § 14.17.410.
(d) Beginning in fiscal year 2000, if a district receives more public school funding under Alaska Stat. § 14.17.410 than the district received in the preceding fiscal year, any amount received by the district under this section shall be reduced. The amount of the reduction required under this subsection is equal to the amount of increase from the preceding fiscal year in public school funding multiplied by 40 percent. In this subsection, “public school funding” does not include funding under this section.
(e) Beginning in fiscal year 2000, in each fiscal year, the department shall compare each district’s ADM with the district’s ADM in fiscal year 1999. If the current fiscal year ADM is less than 95 percent of the district’s ADM in fiscal year 1999, the department shall reduce the district’s public school funding calculated under (a) of this section by a percentage equal to the percentage of decrease in the district’s ADM.
(f) For purposes of this section, “state aid” means state aid distributed under the provisions of Alaska Stat. Chapter 14.17, as those provisions read on January 1, 1998, and additional district support appropriated by the legislature for fiscal year 1998.