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Board briefed on state momentum for weighted student funding and potential budget impacts
Summary
Superintendent Jackson and finance staff updated the board on state-level discussion about shifting to a weighted student funding formula and warned that any change requires substantial new funding to avoid disadvantaging some districts.
Buncombe County Schools leaders told the Board of Education on March 13 that North Carolina may move toward a weighted student funding model and that such a change could materially affect district budgets.
Superintendent Dr. Jackson and Chief Financial Officer Tina Thorpe described the state discussion and said models adopted elsewhere required large increases in base funding to work as intended. "If we simply change the formula without adding the funding, then we risk actually losing funding," Jackson said, summarizing lessons staff heard from Tennessee and Mississippi.
Thorpe explained weighted student funding as a formula that begins with a base per-pupil amount and…
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