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Committee introduces bill to convert discretionary school funding to per-pupil model
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee introduced RS32448, a bill that would convert a discretionary funding component into a per-pupil amount and phase in a weighted per-student funding formula, with a fiscal note of $14.2 million targeted to small and rural districts.
Wendy Horman, a state representative from District 32, told the Ways and Means Committee that RS32448 would “begin to modernize our public school funding formula, which is now over 3 decades old.” The bill converts a discretionary amount of funding to a per-pupil amount and provides an exception for small rural districts in the first year.
The bill’s sponsor,…
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