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[State] New York [Score] 0 [Charter Law Description] 
The law requires districts to pass a proportional share of their per-pupil spending on school operations based on a funding formula, as well as other federal and state aid, to charter schools enrolling students who reside in their geographic area. In recent years, however, the funding formula has been “frozen” at existing levels through successive amendments to the charter law. The law requires pass through payments to charter schools in six substantially equal installments per year. In the event that a district fails to pass along adequate funding to a charter school on a timely basis, the law empowers the New York State Comptroller to deduct funds owed to the charter school from district budgets and direct them to the school. According to charter school advocates in New York, this process is weak in practice, with the state often slow in intercepting dollars from school districts and sending them to charter schools. Under New York law, charter schools are treated like nonpublic schools for the purpose of transportation and the district must provide services similar to those it provides to regular district schools. The law requires charter schools to provide any supplemental transportation. In a national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), New York charter schools were receiving on average $15,271 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $22,976 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $7,705 per pupil—or 33.5 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals some continued inequities for operational funding and significant inequities for capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description