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Legislative fiscal staff outline K‑12 funding basics, highlight enrollment and formula pressures
Summary
Jared Tatro of the Legislative Services Office briefed the House education committee on K‑12 budget drivers: enrollment and average daily attendance, support units, major funds (general, dedicated, federal/ARPA), statutory formulas, and pending enhancement requests including weighted student funding and transportation formula rewrite.
Jared Tatro, deputy division manager in the Legislative Services Office, briefed the House Committee on Education on Feb. 13 on how Idaho’s K‑12 funding works, the key drivers of cost and recent pressures that could alter district budgets.
Tatro told the committee the state’s estimated enrollment for the current school year is about 314,100 students; midterm average daily attendance (the attendance measure used to calculate funding) was about 295,400 — roughly 94% of enrollment. He reported 15,875 support units in the current midterm calculation and said the current year appropriation for public schools is roughly $3.3 billion, of which about $2.6 billion comes from the state general fund. Federal funds were listed at roughly $251 million plus $99 million in ARPA…
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