Beginning with appropriations for school year 1998-99, state funds appropriated by the General Assembly for school district employer contributions must be allocated to individual school districts based on the Education Finance Act formula. State appropriations for school district employer contributions for school years before 1998-99 must be allocated using the EFA formula and the weighted pupil method in the following percentages:

School YearWeighted Pupil MethodEFA Formula1994-95forty percentsixty percent1995-96thirty percentseventy percent1996-97twenty percenteighty percent1997-98ten percentninety percent.