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Committee advances S-3917 after wide stakeholder input on special education and aid volatility
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to release S-3917, a school-funding bill that would increase transparency in state aid calculations, create a Special Education Funding Review Task Force and cap year-to-year state aid losses for districts; stakeholders urged adjustments to extraordinary special education aid and local fairness measures.
Senators on the Education Committee voted to release Senate Bill 3917 with committee amendments after a multi-hour discussion that drew testimony from the former governor, superintendents, business groups and education advocates.
Chair Vin Gopal said the bill aims to increase transparency and predictability in state school funding and reduce damaging year-to-year swings in aid. "Our goal is to increase the state school funding transparency and predictability, decrease unexpected volatile swings year to year," the chair said in his overview of the bill.
Key provisions in the amended bill include requirements to publish detailed aid calculations online, a mandatory annual increase in extraordinary special education aid (rather than a fixed schedule), establishment of a Special Education Funding Review Task Force, revised Educational Adequacy Report (EAR) procedures and a cap that limits a…
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