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Terms Used In Maryland Code, EDUCATION 8-709

  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) “Cost per pupil” means the amount of money spent by a county board for the operating expenses of public education in the county from county and State sources divided by the full-time equivalent enrollment of the county as defined in § 5-202(a) of this article.

(3) “State sources” means funds provided to a county board in accordance with §§ 5-202, 5-207, 5-208, 5-209, and 5-210 of this article.

(b) Students participating in a program shall be included in the enrollment of the county in which the student is domiciled for the purposes of calculating State aid under §§ 5-202, 5-207, 5-208, 5-209, and 5-210 of this article.

(c) (1) To support the cost of instructional programming for a program, each county board shall pay to the Department an amount equal to 85% of the cost per pupil for each student who participates in a program but is domiciled in the county.

(2) Each county governing body shall include a student participating in a program in the full-time equivalent enrollment used for calculating the required local funds appropriated under § 5-202(d) of this article.

(d) The Department shall disburse the funds received in accordance with this section to the program.