Relating to the financing of certain education programs and services; modifying financial eligibility for child care assistance and providing a payment rate differential for family child care providers or child care centers with current early childhood development credentials or accreditation; restoring revenue for early childhood family education and community education programs; authorizing a certain adult basic education program expenditure adjustment and modifying the state total ABE aid formula, requiring aid not paid due to certain program aid limits to be added to the state total ABE aid for the next fiscal year or reallocated among programs by adjusting the rate per contact hour; increasing the program growth factor for special education revenue and excess cost aid determination purposes and the state total special education and special education excess cost aids; increasing the general education basic revenue formula allowance; temporarily suspending certain child care license fees, requiring the commissioner of human services to use unallocated federal child care development fund money to reimburse the state and counties for the reduced child care licensure fee revenue and to set a standard statewide license and background study fee for family child care providers; imposing a temporary
individual income tax surtax; modifying the child care sliding fee program parent fee schedule; establishing a temporary adult literacy grant program for recent immigrants to the state to meet English language needs, requiring the commissioner of education to consult ABE service providers in establishing the form and manner of the grant program and to award the grants to organizations providing adult literacy services to offset additional costs due to unanticipated high enrollments; appropriating money to the commissioner for community education, ECFE and ABE aids, for school readiness and head start programs and for the literacy grants
(je)