2006 Kansas Code - 72-6414

      72-6414.   At-risk pupil weighting; required expenditures for mastery of basic reading skills, exemption. (a) The at-risk pupil weighting of each district shall be determined by the state board by multiplying the number of at-risk pupils included in enrollment of the district by .193. The product is the at-risk pupil weighting of the district.

      (b)   Except as provided in subsection (d), of the amount a district receives from the at-risk pupil weighting, an amount produced by a pupil weighting of .01 shall be used by the district for achieving mastery of basic reading skills by completion of the third grade in accordance with standards and outcomes of mastery identified by the state board under K.S.A. 72-7534, and amendments thereto.

      (c)   A district shall include such information in its at-risk pupil assistance plan as the state board may require regarding the district's remediation strategies and the results thereof in achieving the third grade reading standards and outcomes of mastery identified by the state board. The reporting requirements shall include information documenting remediation strategies and improvement made by pupils who performed below the expected standard on the second grade diagnostic reading test prescribed by the state board.

      (d)   A district whose pupils substantially achieve the state board standards and outcomes of mastery of reading skills upon completion of third grade may be released, upon request, by the state board from the requirements of subsection (b).

      History:   L. 1992, ch. 280, § 10; L. 1997, ch. 41, § 4; L. 1998, ch. 118, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 165, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 215, § 6; L. 2005, ch. 152, § 17; L. 2005, ch. 2, § 20 (Special Session); July 28.