53F-7 - State Funding — Education Administration
Title 53F > 53F-7
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General Provisions
53F-7-101 - Title.
This chapter is known as “State Funding — Education Administration.”
53F-7-102 - Definitions.
State Board of Education
53F-7-201 - Appropriations from Automobile Driver Education Tax Account.
There is appropriated to the state board from the Automobile Driver Education Tax Account, annually, all money in the account, in excess of the expense of administering the collection of the tax, for use and distribution: 53F-7-201(1) in the administration and maintenance of driver education classes and programs with respect to classes offered in the school district and the establishment of experimental programs, including the purchasing of equipment, by the state board; 53F-7-201(2) for pupil transportation; and 53F-7-201(3) for other expenditures related to public education as the Legislature designates.
53F-7-202 - Distribution of one-time funding for student and school support.
53F-7-202(1) Subject to legislative appropriations, the state board shall allocate one-time funding appropriated for student and school support in accordance with this section by:
for charter schools: distributing an amount that is equal to the product of:
charter school enrollment on October 1 in the prior year, or projected enrollment for a charter school in the charter school’s first year of operations, divided by enrollment on October 1 in public schools statewide in the prior year; and the total amount available for distribution; and allocating to each charter school:
an equally divided portion of 20% of the amount described in Subsection (1)(a)(i); and 80% of the amount described in Subsection (1)(a)(i) on a per-student basis; and for school districts, distributing the remainder of funds available for distribution after the distribution to charter schools under Subsection (1)(a) by allocating to each school district: a base allocation relative to student enrollment as follows:
for a school district with enrollment less than 1% of total state enrollment, 350,000; and for a school district with enrollment greater than 5% of total state enrollment, $200,000; and after the base allocation described in Subsection (1)(b)(i), the remainder on a per-student basis. 53F-7-202(2) An LEA shall: use funds that the state board distributes under this section to support students and schools through one-time priorities that the relevant local governing board approves, including student safety, technology, instructional materials, and capital facility improvements; and submit to the state board, using the survey described in Subsection (3), an accounting of the LEA’s use of the funds that the state board distributes under this section for the given fiscal year. Subsection (2)(a) does not require state board authorization or approval of an LEA expenditure. 53F-7-202(3) The state board shall:
create a one-page survey to allow LEAs to report the LEA’s expenditures as described in Subsection (2)(a); and after the close of each fiscal year, report to the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee at or before the subcommittee’s October meeting regarding expenditures described in this section statewide the previous fiscal year. 53F-7-202(4) An LEA may use funds distributed under this section in a given fiscal year over multiple fiscal years.
53F-7-203 - Paid professional hours for educators.
53F-7-203(1) As used in this section:“Paid professional hours” means hours outside of an educator’s contracted hours.”Qualifying time” means the hours spent engaged in professional learning, including:time spent traveling for the professional learning; andtime engaged in the professional learning.”Qualifying time” does not include time spent:outside of the professional learning environment; orbetween the professional learning activities or sessions once the professional learning has ended for the day; 53F-7-203(2) Subject to legislative appropriations, the state board shall provide funding to each LEA to provide additional paid professional hours to the following educators in accordance with this section:general education and special education teachers;counselors;school administration;school specialists;student support;school psychologists;speech language pathologists; andaudiologists. 53F-7-203(3) The state board shall distribute funds appropriated to the state board under Subsection 53F-9-204(6)(a) to each LEA in proportion to the number of educators described in Subsection (2) within the LEA. 53F-7-203(4) An LEA shall use funding under this section to provide paid professional hours that:provide educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable students to succeed in a well-rounded education and to meet the challenging state academic standards; andmay include activities that:improve and increase an educator’s:knowledge of the academic subjects the educator teaches;time to plan and prepare daily lessons based on student needs;understanding of how students learn; andability to analyze student work and achievement from multiple sources, including how to adjust instructional strategies, assessments, and materials based on the analysis;are an integral part of broad school-wide and LEA-wide educational improvement plans;allow personalized plans for each educator to address the educator’s specific needs identified in observation or other feedback;advance educator understanding of:effective and evidence-based instructional strategies; andstrategies for improving student academic achievement or substantially increasing the knowledge and teaching skills of educators;are aligned with, and directly related to, academic goals of the school or LEA; as determined between an educator and principal, use qualifying time for professional learning that follows a comprehensive evidence-based approach to improving an educator’s effectiveness in raising student achievement, including:trainings;conferences;seminars;workshops; andcoursework that is not related to requirements for a degree from an institution of higher education; andinclude instruction in the use of data and assessments to inform and instruct classroom practice; andmay include expenses an educator incurs for professional learning, including:registration fees;travel related expenses at the allowable rates established by the Division of Finance under Sections 63A-3-106 and 63A-3-107;required materials; andhourly pay for qualifying time equivalent to the educator’s contracted hourly rate in the most recent school year. 53F-7-203(5) An educator shall:on or before September 30, create a plan, in consultation with the educator’s principal, on how the educator plans to use paid professional hours provided under this section ; andbefore the end of a given fiscal year, provide a written statement to the educator’s principal of how the educator used paid professional hours provided under this section.Subsection (5)(a)(i) does not limit an educator who begins employment after September 30 from receiving paid professional hours under this section.An LEA may prorate the paid professional hours of an educator who begins employment after September 30 according to the portion of the school year for which the LEA employs the educator.
Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind
53F-7-301 - Annual salary adjustments for Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind educators — Legislative appropriation.
Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall annually appropriate money to the state board for the salary adjustments described in Section 53E-8-302 , including step and lane changes.