(2) The secondary foundation per pupil operating rate shall be is the summary of actual local operating costs of all school administrative units of the base year adjusted to the year prior to the year of allocation divided by the average total resident pupils in sections 5104 and 6004 educated at public expense in grades 9 to 12 on April 1st and October 1st of the calendar year prior to the year of allocation.

(3)__A student enrolled in an equivalent instruction program at home who is within the school administrative unit as defined in section 1, subsection 26 must be counted as .25 of a full-time regular student for funding purposes.

SUMMARY

This bill requires that all homeschooled students participate in the Maine Educational Assessment and that these students be included in the school funding formula.