3610 - Apportionment for apprenticeship training.

§ 3610. Apportionment  for apprenticeship training.  1. Apprenticeship  training programs. Local education agencies  which  provide  related  or  supplemental   instruction   to  apprentices  registered  by  the  state  department of labor pursuant to article twenty-three of  the  labor  law  shall  be  eligible  for  an apportionment pursuant to the provisions of  this section for the operation of apprenticeship  training  programs  as  approved by the commissioner. Priority shall be given to local education  agencies  which  provide  for an increased number of participants in the  related or supplemental instructional component of  apprentice  training  programs.  Designated local education agencies may provide such programs  directly, or by contracting with school districts, boards of cooperative  educational  services  and  other  providers  of   apprentice   training  services,  including  postsecondary  institutions  and  other  providers  authorized to confer degrees in this state or in  which  the  course  of  instruction   is  licensed,  registered  or  approved  pursuant  to  any  provision of this chapter.    2. Apprenticeship training hours. For  the  purpose  of  computing  an  apportionment under this section, apprenticeship training hours shall be  the  total  number of hours of related or supplemental instruction given  all apprentices in approved apprenticeship training programs in the area  served by the designated local education agency between July  first  and  June  thirtieth  of  the  base  year  as reported to the commissioner by  September first of the current year.    3. Maximum apportionment per hour.  For aid payable  for  school  year  nineteen  hundred  eighty-nine--ninety  the    maximum apportionment per  apprenticeship training hour shall be computed  by  dividing  the  state  appropriation  for  related and supplemental instruction for apprentices  by the total number of apprenticeship training hours of  all  designated  local  education  agencies in the state, computed in accordance with the  regulations of  the  commissioner.  For  aid  payable  for  school  year  nineteen  hundred  ninety--ninety-one and thereafter, this apportionment  shall be at the rate of one dollar per training hour.    4. Apprenticeship training program  apportionment.  The  apportionment  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  the  product  obtained  when the  apportionment per hour is multiplied by  the  number  of  apprenticeship  training hours of the designated local education agency. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section  thirty-six  hundred  nine of this article,  payment of such apportionment shall be made by  November  first  of  the  current year.    5.  State  aid. No designated local education agency may receive under  the provisions of this section an amount which when added to  all  other  state  aid  received  by  such designated local education agency for the  purpose of this section, exceeds one-half the cost of  such  program  in  that  year. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if the  total aid received exceeds one-half the cost of the program,  any  state  aid payable to the designated local education agency shall be reduced in  the amount of such excess.    6.  Apprentices. Apprentices in apprenticeship training programs shall  not be included in any attendance count of this article  and  shall  not  generate aid under any other provisions of this chapter.    7.   Apportionment  for  administrative  costs.  In  addition  to  the  apportionment under subdivision four of  this  section,  any  designated  local  education  agency  which  has  reported  by  September  first the  processing of more than one hundred fifty apprentices shall  receive  an  amount equal to three dollars per apprentice served.    8.  Regulations.  The  commissioner may adopt regulations to implement  any of the provisions of this section.