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The Education Improvement Act of 1992 created Tennessee
Code Annotated, Section 49-3-363, concerning children for
whose education the state is directly responsible. The statute
reads as follows:
Whenever any child is placed in the
custody of the state of Tennessee or the education of the child
shall become the state's direct responsibility for any reason,
the Commissioner of Education shall pay to the state agency responsible
for the child or as may otherwise be directed in the general
appropriations act, an amount equal to the state funds, plus
the local funds which would otherwise be expended on the child
had the child not been placed under state care. The total amount
of such payments shall be deducted by the Commissioner from the
total state payments which would otherwise be made under this
part to the local education agency which would be responsible
for the child's education had the child not been placed under
the state's direct responsibility.
Methodology used to calculate school system funding
for children in state custody was developed by an inter-departmental
team of personnel from the Department of Children's Services and
the Department of Education to comply with Tennessee Code Annotated,
Section 49-3-363. This methodolgy has been documented in
a process manual that is downloadable for viewing or printing in
PDF format by clicking on the icon below.
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