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LSO presents K–12 budget overview: attendance-driven funding, support units and proposed enhancements
Summary
Jared Tatro of the Legislative Services Office presented a high-level K–12 budget briefing to the House Education Committee, explaining attendance-based funding, support units, staff allowances and top enhancement requests including a weighted student formula, transportation formula rewrite and a special-needs fund.
Jared Tatro, deputy division manager for the Legislative Services Office’s budget and policy analysis division, briefed the House Committee on Education Feb. 13 on how Idaho funds K–12 public schools and on the department’s top budget priorities and enhancement requests.
Tatro explained that most state K–12 funding flows through support units and is calculated using average daily attendance (ADA). He said the current midterm ADA-based payment reflects about 295,400 average daily attendances against an enrollment estimate of roughly 314,100 students. The committee was told the current midterm support-unit count is 15,875; last session’s appropriation was based on 16,154 support units.
Tatro noted that the Legislature does not set local employee compensation; lawmakers appropriate formula dollars and districts decide…
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