29.__School level teaching staff.__"School level teaching staff" means full-time public classroom teachers, itinerant classroom teachers and special teachers of reading or literacy specialists excluding special education teachers and vocational education teachers, as documented in the department's database.

30.__Secondary grades.__"Secondary grades" means grade 9 to grade 12.

31.__State share percentage.__"State share percentage" means the percentage of the sum of the following amounts that is provided by a state appropriation:

A.__Operating costs total allocation, as described in section 15683;

B.__Program costs allocation, as described in section 15608, subsection 2;

C.__Allocations for debt service costs, as defined in section 15603, subsection 8; and

D.__Allocations for all adjustments and miscellaneous costs authorized pursuant to sections 15612 and 15613.

32.__Subsidizable pupils.__"Subsidizable pupils" means all school level pupils who reside in a school administrative unit and who are educated at public expense.

33.__Year of funding.__"Year of funding" means the fiscal year during which state subsidies are disbursed to school administrative units, except as specified in section 15005, subsection 1.

§15673.__Relationship to School Finance Act of 1985

The provisions of chapter 606 apply except as described in this section.

1. Operating costs mill rate. The operating costs mill rate, as described in chapter 606, is in effect for the limited purposes of determining the state and local shares of each school administrative unit's program costs allocation and its debt service allocation and for determining the amount required to provide the total state share of the operating allocation under this Act.__For each individual school administrative unit, the amounts described in section 15681 are used rather than the