New York A09048 amends the education law to redefine the "extraordinary needs count" for funding school districts, including a new definition for the.

New York A09048 amends the education law to redefine the "extraordinary needs count" for funding school districts employing eight or more teachers. This count now includes the sum of the product of the English language learner count multiplied by the ELL weight, the poverty count, the sparsity count, and the count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care. The "count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care" is defined as the sum of the product of students identified as homeless or in foster care, multiplied by thirty-two percent.

New York A09048 amends the education law to redefine the "extraordinary needs count" for funding school districts, including a new definition for the.

New York A09048 amends the education law to redefine the "extraordinary needs count" for funding school districts employing eight or more teachers. This count now includes the sum of the product of the English language learner count multiplied by the ELL weight, the poverty count, the sparsity count, and the count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care. The "count of homeless children and children or youth in foster care" is defined as the sum of the product of students identified as homeless or in foster care, multiplied by thirty-two percent.