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Committee considers combining sparsity and small-school aid and making transportation fully state-funded
Summary
Conference committee members discussed consolidating sparsity and small-school grants into a single targeted grant for small schools in sparse areas and reviewed how proposed changes would make transportation aid fully state-funded.
The conference committee discussed grant design under the proposed foundation formula: whether to combine sparsity and small-school aid into a single targeted grant for small schools in sparse areas, and how larger districts and transportation funding would affect eligibility and payments.
Legislators floated the idea of a single ‘‘small schools in sparse areas’’ grant rather than…
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