15-1466.01
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15-1466.01. Calculation of full-time equivalent student enrollment In determining state aid under sections 15-1464 and 15-1466 the number of full-time equivalent students shall be calculated in the following manner: 1. For the basic actual full-time equivalent student enrollment, add the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled as of forty-five days after classes begin in the fall semester to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled as of forty-five days after classes begin in the spring semester, not including additional short-term classes, and divide the sum by two. 2. For the additional short-term and open entry, open exit full-time equivalent student enrollments: (a) Determine the total number of credit units for students enrolled in additional short-term and open entry, open exit classes for the fiscal year. (b) Determine the total number of credit units for students who have completed the additional short-term and open entry, open exit classes for the fiscal year. Any student who has not completed the class by June 30 of each fiscal year shall not be eligible to be counted for state aid purposes until the following year. (c) Add the amounts in subdivisions (a) and (b). (d) Divide the amount determined in subdivision (c) by two. (e) Divide the quotient obtained in subdivision (d) by thirty. (f) The result in subdivision (e) is the additional short-term and open entry, open exit full-time equivalent student enrollments for the fiscal year. 3. For the skill center and adult basic education courses full-time equivalent student enrollment, divide by six hundred forty the total class attended clock hours of persons who complete vocational training. Any student who does not complete vocational training programs by June 30 of each fiscal year shall not be eligible to be counted for state aid purposes until the following year. 4. The total of basic actual, additional short-term and open entry, open exit and skill center full-time equivalent student enrollment shall be the basis of providing state aid. Beginning with the audit for the year ending June 30, 2003, the auditor general shall audit separately any full-time equivalent student enrollment where a student is enrolled in a course for both high school and college credit simultaneously, except for credit received at a private college or a college owned, operated or chartered by an Indian tribe, taking into consideration any relevant law, regulation or rule. The full-time equivalent student enrollment reported by each district for all basic actual, additional short-term and open entry, open exit classes and skill center and adult basic education courses shall be audited annually by the auditor general. The auditor general shall report the results of the audit to the staffs of the joint legislative budget committee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting by October 15 of each year. 5. For a student who takes a course for which credit is awarded by both a community college and a high school, in which the instructor is an employee of the high school and in which the class is being taught on the high school campus during the normal high school operating hours, the amount of state aid that the community college would otherwise receive for that student shall be reduced by fifty per cent. |