N.Y. Education Law § 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.