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Fridley emphasizes educational-benefits forms as compensatory funding faces uncertainty; $6.8M annual funding at stake, superintendent says
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Mike Lewis told the board the district is pushing an educational-benefits application campaign to preserve compensatory education funding that he said amounts to $6.8 million annually for the district; the district rolled out incentives and school videos to encourage form completion and increase direct certification rates.
Superintendent Dr. Mike Lewis updated the Fridley Public School District board on the district's effort to increase completion of the educational-benefits application amid uncertainty about how compensatory education dollars will be calculated in the future.
Dr. Lewis said districts receive compensatory education dollars with a one-year lag tied to educational-benefits and direct certification. He warned that, "without legislative action, this is going to go away with the form or has gone away with the form qualification, and it's just direct certification." He said the district is tracking direct…
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