Signed by Governor Doug Ducey

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funds for K-12 education for fiscal year 2020-2021.

Highlights:

• Establishes the Arizona Industry Credentials Incentive program within the Department of Education to provide incentive awards to school districts, charter schools, and career technical education districts for high school graduates who obtain a certification, credential, or license that is accepted by a vocation or industry through a career technical education course or program (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes the Department of Education to pay an incentive award of $1,000 to school districts, charter schools, and career technical education districts for each student who meets both of the following conditions (Sec 6):

• Demonstrates completion of high school graduation requirements in the second school year preceding the budget year; and 

• Completes a program resulting in a qualifying certificate, credential, or license that is included on the career technical education industry list or that was included on the list at the time the student began the program. 

• Requires the majority of monies received from the results-based funding fund by a school district or charter holder shall be used at the school that earned the results for teacher salaries, to hire teachers, and for school leader salaries, for classroom supplies and for other strategies to sustain outcomes for students at that school (Sec. 5). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funds for K-12 education for fiscal year 2020-2021.

Highlights:

• Establishes the Arizona Industry Credentials Incentive program within the Department of Education to provide incentive awards to school districts, charter schools, and career technical education districts for high school graduates who obtain a certification, credential, or license that is accepted by a vocation or industry through a career technical education course or program (Sec. 6).

• Authorizes the Department of Education to pay an incentive award of $1,000 to school districts, charter schools, and career technical education districts for each student who meets both of the following conditions (Sec 6):

• Demonstrates completion of high school graduation requirements in the second school year preceding the budget year; and 

• Completes a program resulting in a qualifying certificate, credential, or license that is included on the career technical education industry list or that was included on the list at the time the student began the program. 

• Requires the majority of monies received from the results-based funding fund by a school district or charter holder shall be used at the school that earned the results for teacher salaries, to hire teachers, and for school leader salaries, for classroom supplies and for other strategies to sustain outcomes for students at that school (Sec. 5). 

Full Bill Text