Bill Information

An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, further providing for definitions and for classification of school districts; providing for public schools that provide Internet instruction and for national assessment tests; further providing for school directors' business relations with school district, for management information reports, for distressed first class school districts, for instructional equipment, for duty to employ qualified professionals, for continuing professional development, for proof of residency, for cost of tuition, for maintenance of certain exceptional children in approved institutions, for agricultural education, for funding for charter schools, for financial program and reimbursement on payments and for additions to or removals from the education empowerment list; providing for the use of certain undistributed funds and for the dissolution of certain community colleges; further providing for teachers' and employees' retirement plans, for payments on account of pupils enrolled in vocational curriculums, for vocational education equipment grants, for community college support and for small district assistance; providing for basic education funding for the 2001-2002 school year; further providing for payments to intermediate units and temporary assistance to school districts losing revenue from reassessments; and providing for approved reimbursable annual rental for leases of buildings and facilities for charter school use.