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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-225" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Aid to Education">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Special education enrollment” means the number of students enrolled in a public school in the prior fiscal year who required special education services as defined in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Special education enrollment” includes special education students enrolled in a publicly funded prekindergarten program under Title 7, Subtitle 1A of this article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Special education enrollment” does not include students who are enrolled in or attend:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The Maryland School for the Blind;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The Maryland School for the Deaf; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>An educational program operated by the State.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>For fiscal years 2022 through 2025, “special education per pupil amount” means the following proportions of the target per pupil foundation amount:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>For fiscal year 2022, 86%;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>For fiscal year 2023, 86%;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>For fiscal year 2024, 92%; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>For fiscal year 2025, 99%.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2026, “special education per pupil amount” means:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>For fiscal year 2026, $9,503;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>For fiscal year 2027, $10,900;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>For fiscal year 2028, $12,368;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>For fiscal year 2029, $14,367;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>For fiscal year 2030, $16,836;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>For fiscal year 2031, $17,277;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>For fiscal year 2032, $17,609;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>For fiscal year 2033, $18,053; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="9">
          <text>For subsequent fiscal years, the special education per pupil amount for the prior fiscal year increased by the inflation adjustment rounded to the nearest whole dollar.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each school shall use the funds provided under this section to provide the services required by each student’s individualized education program or 504 plans.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each fiscal year, the State shall distribute the State share for special education to each county board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each fiscal year, the county board shall distribute to each school or publicly funded prekindergarten program the minimum school funding amount for special education calculated under § 5–234 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
