Appropriates $613,471,500 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Operations for fiscal year 2017; amends existing law to increase the salary-based apportionment for classified staff; provides an estimate for discretionary funds per support unit; provides for expenditures for information technology staff; provides for classroom technology; directs the use of moneys for instructional management systems; defines the term "distributed"; and allows for transfers between other divisions.

This is the Fiscal Year 2017 appropriation for the Operations Division of the Public Schools Educational Support Program in the amount of $613,471,500. This budget includes increases for nondiscretionary adjustments that include an estimated enrollment growth of 167 support units, an increase for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, and an endowment increase. There is also a base salary increase of 3% for the classified staff in this division. There are three line items addressed in this appropriation. Line item 1 provides $27,309,300 to increase discretionary funds from $23,868 per support unit to $25,696 per support unit, which is a 7.7% increase. Line item 3 provides $5,000,000 ongoing from the General Fund to be distributed to school districts and charter schools for classroom technology. Line item 8 adds $389,000 ongoing from the General Fund to be distributed to school districts and charter schools to purchase and operate instructional management systems of their choice. This amount, added to the existing $2,611,000 in the base, brings the amount to be distributed for instructional management systems up to $3,000,000. This appropriation is an increase of 7.3% from the General Fund and 7.3% from all funds.