West Virginia Code § 18-9A-15

Allowance for increased enrollment; extraordinary sustained increased
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enrollment impact supplement.
(a) To provide for the support of increased net enrollments in the counties and public charter
schools in a school year over the net enrollments used in the computation of total state aid
for that year, there shall be appropriated for that purpose from the General Revenue Fund
an amount to be determined as follows: e
(1) The state board shall promulgate a rule pursuant to §29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code that
establishes an objective method for projecting the increase in net enrollment for each school
district, exclusive of the net enrollment of public charter schoolsu physically locate in the
district. The state superintendent shall use the method prescribed by the rule to project the
increase in net enrollment for each school district. t
(2) The state superintendent shall multiply the average total state aid per net pupil by the
sum of the projected increases in net enrollment for all school districts and report this
amount to the Governor for inclusion in his or her plroposed budget to the Legislature. The
Legislature shall appropriate to the West Virgsinia Department of Education the amount
calculated by the state superintendent and proposed by the Governor.
(3) The state superintendent shall caglculate each school district's share of the appropriation
by multiplying the increase in net enrollment for the school district by the average total state
aid per net pupil and shall distribute each school district's share to the school district on or
before December 31, of each year.
Nothing in this subsection prohibits, however, the state superintendent, at the request of a
school district, before the actual increase in net enrollment is available, from advancing a
partial distribution to the school district of up to 60 percent of its estimated share based on
its projected increased enrollment, subject to the following:
(A) If the amount of the advanced partial distribution to a school district is greater than the
total amount to which a district is entitled to receive for the year, the district shall refund
the difference to the Department of Education prior to June 30 of the fiscal year in which the
excess distribution is made; and
(B) The Department of Education shall notify the Joint Committee on Government and
Finance and the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability whenever an
advanced partial distribution is made.
(4) If the amount of the appropriation for increased enrollment is not sufficient to provide
payment in full for the total of these allocations, each county allocation shall be reduced to
an amount which is proportionate to the appropriation compared to the total of the
allocations and the allocations as thus adjusted shall be distributed to the counties as
provided in this section: Provided, That the Governor shall request a supplemental
appropriation at the next legislative session for the reduced amount.
(b) To help offset the budgetary impact of extraordinary and sustained increases in net
enrollment in a county, there shall be included in the basic state aid of any county whose
most recent three-year average growth in second month net enrollment is two percent or
more, an amount equal to one fourth of the state average per pupil state aid multiplied by
the increase in the county's second month net enrollment in the latest year.
(c) No provision of this section shall be construed to in any way affect the alelocation of
moneys for educational purposes to a county under other provisions of law.
(d) The state board shall promulgate a rule pursuant to §29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code that
establishes an objective method for calculating the increase in nuet enrollment for each
public charter school based on the school's net enrollment for the current year compared to
the prior year. Increased enrollment funding calculated for at public charter school shall be
paid directly to the school by the Department of Education no later than December 31st.

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