Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Columbia Heights school board urges legislature to fix compensatory-aid certification, cites $3.7 million loss
Summary
The Columbia Heights Public Schools board adopted a resolution calling on the Minnesota Legislature to create a hold-harmless or permanent fix after a change in compensatory-aid certification is expected to reduce the district’s state compensatory funding by about $3.7 million for FY2026.
The Columbia Heights Public Schools board adopted a resolution Wednesday asking the Minnesota Legislature and the governor to promptly pass a bill that creates a hold-harmless mechanism or permanent fix for changes to compensatory-aid certification and calculations.
Board member Maderas (full name not specified in the transcript), who authored the resolution, read the board’s findings aloud and moved to adopt it. The motion was seconded and passed on a roll-call vote; the board president announced the motion carried.
The resolution says Columbia Heights Public Schools (Independent School District No. 13) received roughly $9,000,000 in compensatory funding in fiscal year 2024–25 and that a shift from using free-and-reduced-price-lunch forms to relying only on county direct certification will miss “just over 900” eligible students. The district estimates that change would…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
