15-976. Assistance for school districts for
children whose parents are employed by certain state institutions;
expenditure limitation
A. The superintendent of public instruction shall assist school districts in
educating children whose parents or legal guardians are employed by and domiciled at the
following state institutions and stations: the state hospital, the Arizona state schools
for the deaf and the blind, mental retardation centers, port of entry inspection stations
and institutions and facilities maintained by the state department of corrections. The
school enrollment is deemed for the purpose of determining student count to be enrollment
in the school district of actual attendance. The assistance shall be by payment of
tuition as follows:
1. For group B children with disabilities, as provided in section 15-825,
subsection D.
2. For children other than group B children with disabilities, the costs per
student count as prescribed in section 15-824, subsection G minus the amount generated by
the equalization base as determined in section 15-971, subsection A for those pupils,
except that in no case shall the tuition for any pupil exceed an amount equal to seven
thousand dollars minus the amount generated by the equalization base as determined in
section 15-971, subsection A.
B. Claims for such payments shall be made by the school districts through the
county school superintendent to the superintendent of public instruction.
C. The total amount of state monies that may be spent in any fiscal year by the
superintendent of public instruction pursuant to subsection A of this section shall not
exceed the amount appropriated or authorized by section 35-173 for that purpose. This
section shall not be construed to impose a duty on an officer, agent or employee of this
state to discharge a responsibility or to create any right in a person or group if the
discharge or right would require an expenditure of state monies in excess of the
expenditure authorized by legislative appropriation for that specific purpose.
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