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Senate education committee sends bill to clarify rural school funding formula
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted unanimously to send House Bill 396, which refines eligibility and scale provisions for the state’s rural-school funding formula, to the full Senate after rural superintendents and the State Board of Education backed the changes.
A Senate committee on an unanimous voice vote advanced House Bill 396, a measure that defines eligibility and adjusts how the state supports small, rural school districts.
The bill clarifies the existing NES rural-school funding formula and creates two funding tracks keyed to district population, sponsor Kobe Willis, superintendent of Piute County School District, told the committee. “This bill addresses the NES formula, which is the formula to fund rural school districts,” Willis said, saying the measure “provides a clear definition of what qualifies and…
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