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Ch. 288
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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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[5-212.
(a) (1) In this section the following terms have the meanings indicated.
(2) "FTE teacher amount" means for each local education agency, the
greater of:
(i) 130% of the standard salary for a 10-month, first-year teacher
with a bachelor's degree in the year preceding the year for which funds are provided
in that local education agency; or
(ii) $39,000.
(3) "Reading factor" means the total enrollment in first grade and second
grade on September 30 of the previous fiscal year.
(4) "Professional development, materials, and facilities component"
means an amount intended to cover costs associated with class size reduction
expenses other than personnel costs.
(b) There is a Maryland Learning Success Program.
(c) The purpose of the Maryland Learning Success Program is to provide
grants that will assist local education agencies to reduce class sizes for reading
instruction in the first and second grades.
(d) (1) The maximum Maryland Learning Success Program grant to each
local education agency shall consist of:
(i) A reading component; and
(ii) For fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003 only, a professional
development, materials, and facilities component.
(2) For fiscal year 2003 and each subsequent fiscal year, the amount of
the maximum Maryland Learning Success Program grant shall be reduced 5 percent
for each 1 percent by which the percentage of total teachers in the local education
agency who are provisionally certified exceeds 2 percent as of December 1 of the
previous fiscal year.
(3) The reading component shall be calculated as follows:
(i) For fiscal year 2001, by dividing the reading factor for the local
education agency by 750 and multiplying the result by the FTE teacher amount for
the local education agency;
(ii) For fiscal year 2002, by dividing the reading factor for the local
education agency by 375 and multiplying the result by the FTE teacher amount for
the local education agency;
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(iii) For fiscal year 2003, by dividing the reading factor for the local
education agency by 250 and multiplying the result by the FTE teacher amount for
the local education agency;
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