R277-927-3. Program Requirements and Board Distribution of Program Money

  (1)(a) For the 2019-20 school year, the Superintendent shall distribute an LEA's annual program allocation, in equal payment amounts, to an LEA once the LEA submits the LEA's student success framework through the Board's grant management system.

  (b) If an LEA amends the LEA's student success framework, the LEA shall submit the amended student success framework through the Board's grant management system.

  (2) Beginning with the 2020-21 school year, if the LEA previously submitted a student success framework, before the LEA receives the LEA's annual program allocation, the LEA shall submit annual assurances in accordance with the requirements of R277-108.

  (3) If an LEA fails to submit the LEA's student success framework as described in Subsection (1) or annual assurances described in Subsection (2) to the Superintendent by November 1 of a fiscal year:

  (a) the LEA may not receive a program allocation for that fiscal year; and

  (b) the undistributed balance will be included with the new year appropriation and distributed in the following fiscal year according to the formula described in Subsection 53F-2-416(3).

  (4) For purposes of calculating the formula described in Subsection 53F-2-416(3), "weighted pupil units" means:

  (a) for a school district or charter school:

  (i) the weighted pupil units for the current year budget request for the minimum school basic program; minus

  (ii) the weighted pupil units allocated to LEAs for foreign exchange students; and

  (b) for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind, USDB's prior year October 1 headcount multiplied by two.

  (5) For a new LEA or new charter satellite campus in the LEA or charter school satellite's second year of operation, the Superintendent shall increase or decrease the new LEA or charter school satellite's first year distribution of funds in the LEA or charter school satellite's second year to reflect the LEA or charter school satellite's actual first year October 1 counts.

  (6) For purposes of determining whether a school district in a county of the first, second, or third class has an approved board local levy for the maximum amount allowed for the purposes described in Subsection 53G-7-1304(2)(c)(i)(A), the school district meets the property tax requirements of Subsection 53G-7-1304(2)(a)(i) if in the applicable fiscal year:

  (a) the school district's rate imposed for the board local levy is equal to the maximum amount allowed under Section 53F-8-302; or

  (b)(i) meets or exceeds an amount equal to the certified board local levy rate; and

  (ii) the school district's board local levy rate equaled the maximum amount allowed under Section 53F-8-302 sometime within the prior five fiscal years.

  (7) For purposes of determining whether a school district in a county of the first, second, or third class increased the school district's board local levy by at least .0001 per dollar of taxable value as described in Subsection 53G-7-1304(2)(c)(i)(B), a school district that does not meet the property tax requirements of Subsection (6), the school district meets the requirements of Subsection 53G-7-1304(2)(c)(i)(B) if the school district's board local levy rate for the current fiscal year is at least .0001 per dollar of taxable value more than the school district's board local levy rate imposed in the prior fiscal year.

  (8) For fiscal year 2020, "state average teacher salary" means a weighted calculation of the statewide teacher salary expenditures reported on the annual financial report by LEA from fiscal year 2018 divided by the number of full-time equivalent educators or FTEs from the most recent educator cactus submission.

  (9) Except as provided in Subsection (10), for fiscal year 2020, "LEA's average teacher salary" means the LEA's teacher salary expenditures reported on the annual financial report from fiscal year 2018 divided by the LEA's number of full-time equivalent educators or FTEs from the most recent educator cactus submission.

  (10) For a new LEA in the new LEA's first or second year of operation, the new LEA's average teacher salary is equal to the state average teacher salary.