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Rural school officials press to restore sparsity cap index; fiscal office warns of statewide levy impact
Summary
Proponents representing sparsely populated districts asked the committee to raise and index the sparsity maximum that has been frozen since 2013; the state Bureau of Finance and Management warned the change would increase state and local costs and the committee deferred action.
Senate Bill 70 would increase the statutory maximum sparsity benefit available to eligible small, sparsely populated school districts and index that maximum to the state education index beginning July 1, 2026. Senator Marty introduced the bill and proponents said the current cap — set in 2013 — was not indexed and that bringing the cap up to current indexed…
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