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heading ‘‘Federal Payment for Public School Librar-
ies’’ shall be available for District of Columbia Pub-
lic Schools and $13,000,000 from funds previously 
appropriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal 
Payment for School Improvement in the District of 
Columbia’’ shall be available for District of Colum-
bia Public Schools: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, the 
evaluation process and instruments for evaluating 
District of Columbia Public School employees shall 
be a non-negotiable item for collective bargaining 
purposes: Provided further, That this appropriation 
shall not be available to subsidize the education of 
any nonresident of the District of Columbia at any 
District of Columbia public elementary or secondary 
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 Pub-
lic 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
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on July 1, 2005, an amount equal to 10 percent of 
the total amount of the local funds appropriations 
request provided for the District of Columbia Public 
Schools in the proposed budget of the District of Co-
lumbia for fiscal year 2006 (as submitted to Con-
gress), and the amount of such payment shall be 
chargeable against the final amount provided for the 
District of Columbia Public Schools under the Dis-
trict of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2006: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $9,300 for the Su-
perintendent of Schools shall be available from this 
appropriation for official reception and representa-
tion expenses. 
(2) 
TEACHERS’ 
RETIREMENT
FUND.—
$9,200,000 from local funds shall be available for 
the Teacher’s Retirement Fund. 
(3) STATE EDUCATION OFFICE.—$43,104,000 
(including 
$10,015,000 
from 
local 
funds, 
$32,913,000 
from 
Federal 
grant 
funds, 
and 
$176,000 
from 
other 
funds), 
in 
addition, 
$25,600,000 from funds previously appropriated in 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal Payment for 
Resident Tuition Support’’ shall be available for the 
State Education Office and $13,000,000 from funds 
previously appropriated in this Act under the head-
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ing ‘‘Federal Payment for School Improvement in 
the District of Columbia’’ shall be available for the 
State Education Office: Provided, That of the 
amounts provided to the State Education Office, 
$500,000 from local funds shall remain available 
until June 30, 2006 for an audit of the student en-
rollment 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 
schools: Provided, That there shall be quarterly dis-
bursement of funds to the District of Columbia pub-
lic charter schools, with the first payment to occur 
within 15 days of the beginning of the fiscal year: 
Provided further, That if the entirety of this alloca-
tion has not been provided as payments to any pub-
lic charter schools currently in operation through the 
per pupil funding formula, the funds shall remain 
available for public education in accordance with sec-
tion 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 District of Columbia pub-