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Committee advances bill to revise rural small-school funding formula
Summary
HB 396 would revise the Necessarily Existent Small (NES) schools funding formula to provide clearer eligibility, address locality anomalies, phase down funding as growth occurs, and eliminate disincentives to consolidation. The committee voted unanimously to recommend the bill.
Representative Jennifer Peterson described House Bill 396 as a technical but comprehensive restructuring of the state’s necessarily existent small (NES) school funding formula.
Peterson said a working group of rural superintendents, district business administrators and the State Board of Education met for more than two years to redesign the formula. Testimony from rural superintendents said the current NES…
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