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uating District of Columbia Public School employees 
shall be a non-negotiable item for collective bar-
gaining purposes: Provided further, That this appro-
priation shall not be available to subsidize the edu-
cation of any nonresident of the District of Columbia 
at any District of Columbia public elementary or sec-
ondary school during fiscal year 2005 unless the non-
resident pays tuition to the District of Columbia at 
a rate that covers 100 percent of the costs incurred by 
the District of Columbia that are attributable to the 
education of the nonresident (as established by the 
Superintendent of the District of Columbia Public 
Schools): Provided further, That notwithstanding the 
amounts otherwise provided under this heading or 
any other provision of law, there shall be appro-
priated to the District of Columbia Public Schools on 
July 1, 2005, an amount equal to 10 percent of the 
total amount of the local funds provided for the Dis-
trict of Columbia Public Schools in the proposed 
budget of the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2005 
(as submitted to Congress), and the amount of such 
payment shall be chargeable against the final amount 
provided for the District of Columbia Public Schools 
under the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 
2005: Provided further, That not to exceed $9,300 for
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the Superintendent of Schools shall be available from 
this appropriation for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
(2) TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT FUND.—$9,200,000 
from local funds shall be available for the Teachers’ 
Retirement Fund. 
(3) STATE
EDUCATION
OFFICE.—$73,104,000 
(including $10,015,000 from local funds, $62,914,000 
from Federal funds, and $176,000 from other funds), 
in addition, $26,500,000 from funds previously ap-
propriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal 
Payment 
for 
Resident 
Tuition 
Support’’ 
and 
$14,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal Payment for 
School Improvement in the District of Columbia’’ 
shall be available for the State Education Office: Pro-
vided, That of the amounts provided to the State 
Education Office, $500,000 from local funds shall re-
main available until June 30, 2006 for an audit of 
the student enrollment of each District of Columbia 
Public School and of each District of Columbia public 
charter school. 
(4) DISTRICT
OF
COLUMBIA
PUBLIC
CHARTER 
SCHOOLS.—$196,802,000 from local funds shall be 
available for District of Columbia public charter
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schools: Provided, That there shall be quarterly dis-
bursement of funds to the District of Columbia public 
charter schools, with the first payment to occur with-
in 15 days of the beginning of the fiscal year: Pro-
vided further, That if the entirety of this allocation 
has not been provided as payments to any public 
charter schools currently in operation through the per 
pupil funding formula, the funds shall remain avail-
able as follows: (A) the first $3,000,000 shall be depos-
ited in the Credit Enhancement Revolving Fund es-
tablished pursuant to section 603(e) of the Student 
Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 
1996 (Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009; 20 
U.S.C. 1155(e)); and (B) the balance shall be for pub-
lic education in accordance with section 2403(b)(2) of 
the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 
(D.C. Official Code, sec. 38–1804.03(b)(2)): Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available to Dis-
trict of Columbia public charter schools, $25,000 shall 
be made available to the Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer as authorized by section 2403(b)(6) of the Dis-
trict of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. 
Official Code, sec. 38–1804.03(b)(6)): Provided fur-
ther, That $660,000 of this amount shall be available 
to the District of Columbia Public Charter School
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Board for administrative costs: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding the amounts otherwise provided 
under this heading or any other provision of law, 
there shall be appropriated to the District of Colum-
bia public charter schools on July 1, 2005, an amount 
equal to 25 percent of the total amount of the local 
funds appropriations request provided for payments 
to public charter schools in the proposed budget of the 
District of Columbia for fiscal year 2005 (as sub-
mitted to Congress), and the amount of such payment 
shall be chargeable against the final amount provided 
for such payments under the District of Columbia Ap-
propriations Act, 2005: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
appropriated herein for the District of Columbia Pub-
lic Charter Schools, the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia, in coordination with the Dis-
trict of Columbia Chartering Authorities for the Dis-
trict of Columbia Public Charter Schools, shall estab-
lish requirements, policies and procedures for the per-
formance of a single financial audit, to be performed 
by one auditing firm selected by the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia: Provided further, 
That beginning in fiscal year 2005, the District of 
Columbia Chartering Authorities for the District of