| 22-A.__Predicted per-pupil transportation costs.__"Predicted  | 
| per-pupil transportation costs" means the predicted  | 
| transportation costs for a school administrative unit based on  | 
| the number of resident pupils, the number of miles of Class 1 to  | 
| Class 5 roads in the school administrative unit and approved  | 
| adjustments.__Approved adjustments include a per mile rate equal  | 
| to the state average gross transportation operating costs per  | 
| mile driven for transportation associated with out-of-district  | 
| special education programs, up to 2 round trips per day for  | 
| vocational education programs, and adjustments for expenditures  | 
| for ferry services within a school administrative unit,  | 
| transportation of homeless children in accordance with section  | 
| 5205 and transportation costs of island school administrative  | 
| units. |