For purposes of determining the eligibility of a school for the “necessary small school” foundation program, if by November 10th of any current fiscal year, an additional teacher or teachers are hired in elementary schools or high schools such teachers shall be deemed to have been hired as of the beginning of the school year, and the districts shall, if otherwise eligible, be entitled to the appropriate small school foundation programs for purposes of computation of the principal apportionments.
(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)