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_ 197 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 125. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Department of Education shall reallocate any unused student slots as prescribed in this item. 11. Remedial Summer School a. This appropriation includes $36,359,040$33,444,383 the first year and $34,291,832 the second year from the general fund for the state's share of Remedial Summer School Programs. These funds are available to school divisions for the operation of programs designed to remediate students who are required to attend such programs during a summer school session or during an intersession in the case of year-round schools. These funds may be used in conjunction with other sources of state funding for remediation or intervention. School divisions shall have maximum flexibility with respect to the use of these funds and the types of remediation programs offered; however, in exercising this flexibility, students attending these programs shall not be charged tuition and no high school credit may be awarded to students who participate in this program. b. For school divisions charging students tuition for summer high school credit courses, consideration shall be given to students from households with extenuating financial circumstances who are repeating a class in order to graduate. 12. K-3 Primary Class Size Reduction Payments a. An additional payment estimated at $163,843,284$156,375,875 the first year and $164,595,097$163,084,946 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education as an incentive for reducing class sizes in the primary grades. b. The Department of Education shall calculate the payment based on the incremental cost of providing the lower class sizes based on the lower of the division average per pupil cost of all divisions or the actual division per pupil cost. c. Localities are required to provide a match for these funds based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay. d. By October 15 of each year school divisions must provide data to the Department of Education that each participating school has a September 30 pupil/teacher ratio in grades K through 3 that meet the following criteria: Qualifying School Percentage of Students Approved Grades K-3 Maximum Individual Eligible for Free Lunch, Three-Year Average School Ratio K-3 Class Size 30% but less than 45% 19 to 1 24 45% but less than 55% 18 to 1 23 55% but less than 65% 17 to 1 22 65% but less than 70% 16 to 1 21 70% but less than 75% 15 to 1 20 75% or more 14 to 1 19 e. School divisions may elect to have eligible schools participate at a higher ratio, or only in a portion of grades kindergarten through three, with a commensurate reduction of state and required local funds, if local conditions do not permit participation at the established ratio and/or maximum individual class size. In the event that a school division requires additional actions to ensure participation at the established ratio and/or maximum individual class size, such actions must be completed by December 1 of the impacted school year. Special education teachers and instructional aides shall not be counted towards meeting these required pupil/teacher ratios in grades kindergarten through three. f. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant waivers to school divisions for the class size requirement in eligible schools that have only one class in an affected grade level in the school. 13. Literary Fund Subsidy Program Payments