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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="8-709" title_number="8" title_name="Special Programs for Exceptional Children" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Cost per pupil” means the amount of money spent by a county board for the operating expenses of public education in the county from county and State sources divided by the full-time equivalent enrollment of the county as defined in § 5-202(a) of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“State sources” means funds provided to a county board in accordance with §§ 5-202, 5-207, 5-208, 5-209, and 5-210 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Students participating in a program shall be included in the enrollment of the county in which the student is domiciled for the purposes of calculating State aid under §§ 5-202, 5-207, 5-208, 5-209, and 5-210 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To support the cost of instructional programming for a program, each county board shall pay to the Department an amount equal to 85% of the cost per pupil for each student who participates in a program but is domiciled in the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each county governing body shall include a student participating in a program in the full-time equivalent enrollment used for calculating the required local funds appropriated under § 5-202(d) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall disburse the funds received in accordance with this section to the program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
