Relating to education; providing telecommunications/internet access equity aid to school districts or charter schools; specifying costs eligible and ineligible for submittal to the department of education for reimbursement and certain application eligibility requirements, requiring discounts received on telecommunications expenditures to be reflected in the costs submitted to the department for aid; requiring the commissioner of education to develop criteria for approving costs submitted; prescribing the aid formula; requiring school districts to provide telecommunications/internet access services for nonpublic schools upon request and prescribing an aid formula for the services,
authorizing direct payment to the nonpublic school, specifying certain limits; severability clause; requiring full payment of and appropriating money to the department for the aid
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