SUMMARY:  This bill would amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 to temporarily waive expenditure controls relating to direct instruction, media center costs, staff and professional development costs and additional days of instruction.  It also provides for temporary system average maximum class sizes K-8 and blanket waivers for class size.

REQUIREMENTS:

• For 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 only, expenditure controls would be waived for direction instructional costs, media center costs, staff and professional development costs and additional days of instruction costs from 2010-2011 through 2012-2013.
• Local school systems would have to report to the DOE their budgets and expenditures as a part of the fall and spring FTE counts.
• The preceding two items would expire July 1, 2013.
• For 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 the system average maximum class size would be the same as the individual maximum class size, and only the system average class size would  have to be met if a SBOE blanket waiver were in effect.
• The SBOE could pass a blanket waiver on class size, but no individual class size waivers would be allowed.