School Accounting and Funding: Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Student Accounting and Funding – Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Student Accounting
Students will be considered homeless and residents of the district that enrolls them. If they enroll in a charter school they will be considered residents of the district in which the family is living, i.e., where they sleep at night.
The students will generate Adjusted ADM for the enrolling district or charter school. They will generate resident ADM for the district in which they are enrolled, or in the case of charter school enrollment, in the district in which the family sleeps at night.
As homeless, households are automatically considered eligible for the free meal program. The district can complete the Application for Educational Benefits on behalf of the family and provide a copy of that report to the family as documentation.
These students should be reported on MARSS with a State Aid Category 97 and a last location code of 02. This will allow us to track the ADM and funding associated with these displaced students.
Funding
All students enrolled during the school year will generate some ADM depending on how long they are enrolled in a Minnesota public school. The ADM is based on the number of days a student is enrolled as a percentage of the number of days in the enrolling school’s calendar for the school year. The ADM generated by these students will be used in the same manner as ADM generated by other students to determine funding. As with other students, the ADM are weighted depending on the student’s grade level, with secondary students generating more pupil units than elementary students. And, under the state’s marginal cost pupil unit calculations, districts with declining enrollments are funded based on 77% of the current year’s weighted pupil units and 23% of the prior year’s weighted pupil units, while districts with growing enrollments are funded based on 100% of the current year’s weighted pupil units.
Students enrolled in a Minnesota public school on October 1, 2005 will generate compensatory revenue for the 2006-07 school year (FY 2007). These students will not generate compensatory revenue for FY 2006, since that revenue was calculated based on student counts from October 1, 2004.
Contacts for Further Information
Questions regarding MARSS reporting should be directed to Marilynn Loehr at (651) 582-8592 or marilynn.loehr@state.mn.us. Other student accounting questions may be directed to Sharon Peck at (651) 582-8811 or sharon.peck@state.mn.us. Questions concerning funding should be directed to Tom Melcher at (651) 582-8828 or tom.melcher@state.mn.us.
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