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Committee hears K-12 funding bill that shifts monthly apportionment and reduces LEA counts for some online students
Summary
The Ways & Means Committee held a public hearing April 23 on House Bill 2,050, which would change the monthly apportionment schedule for K‑12 state funding and reduce the student count used to calculate local effort assistance (LEA) for districts with large alternative learning experience enrollments.
The Ways & Means Committee held a public hearing April 23 on House Bill 2,050, which would change the monthly apportionment schedule for K‑12 funding and alter how local effort assistance (LEA) is calculated for districts with high enrollments in alternative learning experience (ALE) programs.
Kayla Hammer, staff to the committee, told members “the bill before you is House Bill 2,050 relating to K‑twelve savings and efficiencies.” She summarized two parts: a shift in the monthly apportionment schedule across two school years and a rule reducing the student count used to calculate LEA when a district’s ALE enrollment exceeds 33 percent of average annual full‑time equivalent students.
The apportionment change reduces the February–April monthly proportions and…
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