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[State] Maine [Score] 4 [Charter Law Description] 
Maine law includes many of the model law’s provisions for equitable operational and categorical funding, but there is no evidence of the amount of funds charters receive versus districts. Maine law provides that state and local operating funds follow each student to the public charter school attended by the student, but allows districts to retain up to 1 percent of the per-pupil allocation for administrative costs associated with the transfer of funds. The law provides that funding must be transferred from the local school district of residence to the charter school. The law also provides that if a district does not comply with the law’s funding provisions, the state treasurer will deduct the necessary amount from the district’s state funds and send it to the charter school. For transportation expenses, the law provides that the average per-pupil expense in each school administrative unit of residence must be calculated and an amount equal to a proportion, up to but not more than 100 percent, of that per-pupil allocation amount must be forwarded to the public charter school attended on the same basis as the per-pupil allocations for operating funds. It also provides that the percentage of that per-pupil expense must be determined by the authorizer of the public charter school and must be based on the cost of transportation services provided by the public charter school to the student.
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description