2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §15-2203  Distribution of monies from school districts to schools

A. By April 1 the governing board of each school district shall provide a detailed written menu of services that the district will offer to provide to financially and operationally independent schools. The cost charged to the financially and operationally independent schools for services provided by the school district shall not exceed the costs charged to other schools in the school district.

B. After deducting necessary expenses that are directly related to the administration of the school district, each school district shall distribute all monies that are associated with teacher salaries, average daily membership and transportation of pupils directly to the principal of each school in the school district in the same manner as prescribed for school districts pursuant to section 15-973, subsection B, except that special education weighted funding prescribed pursuant to section 15-943 shall be distributed to and administered by the school district. The school district shall enter into a good faith agreement with the principal for the distribution of special education monies. The distribution of special education monies to the financially and operationally independent school need not necessarily conform to the amount of the group B weights prescribed in section 15-943.

C. By June 1 the principal of each individual school shall notify the governing board of the school district which, if any, services that the school will contract to purchase from the school district.

D. On July 1 of the first year of each school's financial and operation independence from the school district, the department of education shall apportion to the school one-third of the total amount of the monies to be apportioned during the fiscal year that are associated with average daily membership and transportation of pupils.

E. If the qualified electors of the school district approve a school district budget override pursuant to section 15-481, a financially and operationally independent school is entitled to the same amount of proceeds from the override election that the school would be entitled to receive if the school were not financially and operationally independent from the school district.

F. The school district is responsible for providing interscholastic athletic services for financially and operationally independent schools. The school district may charge the costs of providing interscholastic athletic services to financially and operationally independent schools that participate in interscholastic athletic activities.