PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994
108 STAT. 4019
each Bureau funded school and annual projections of such
costs; and
"(B) the feasibility and desirability of changing the
method of financing for Bureau funded schools from the
weighted student unit formula method in effect on the
date of enactment of this Act to a school-based budget
system or other alternative system of financial support.
"(2) COST ANALYSIS PURPOSE.— The purpose of the cost
analysis provided for in paragraph (1)(A) shall be to provide
the Bureau and the panel described in subsection (b)(4) with
baseline data regarding the current state of operations funded
by the Bureau and to provide a framework for the implementation of opportunity-to-leam standards or strategies. Such analy-
sis shall evaluate the costs of providing a program in each
school operated or supported by the Bureau for the next
succeeding academic year and shall be based on—
"(A) the standards either published in the Federal
Register and effective for schools funded by the Bureau
on the date of enactment of the Improving America's
Schools Act of 1994, or the State or regional standards
in effect on such date for a Bureau funded school;
"(B) the best projections of student counts and demographics as provided by the Bureau and as independently
reviewed by the organization or institution selected by
the Secretary to perform the analysis described in this
section; and
"(C) the pay and benefit schedules and other personnel
requirements for each school operated by the Bureau, as
such pay and benefit schedules and rr^quirements existed
on the date of enactment of the Improving America's
Schools Act of 1994.
" (3) FEASIBILITY STUDY PURPOSE.—(A) The purpose of the
feasibility analysis provided for in paragraph (1)(B) shall be
to determine whether it is feasible and desirable for the Bureau
to replace or modify the weighted student unit formula system
in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
"(B) For the purposes of the feasibility analysis described
in paragraph (1)(B), the term 'school-based budget system'
means a system based upon an initial determination, at each
school site, of the number of students who shall be served
at the site, the needs of those students, the stsindards which
will best meet those needs (including any standards or conditions reflecting local community input and such communit^s
program), the personnel profile necessary to establish such
program and the cost (determined on an actual basis) of funding
such a program. Such a system shall include procedures to
aggregate the determinations for each school site to determine
the amount needed to fund all Bureau funded schools, to prepare a budget submission based upon such aggregate, and
to provide for a mechanism for distributing such sums as may
be appropriated based upon the determination at each school
site.
"(4) RESULTS REPORT.— The contractor selected shall be
required to report the results of analyses provided for in this
section, in aggregate and school-specific form to the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the Committee on
Education and Labor and the Committee on Appropriations
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