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Task force reviews how Kansas defines and spends "at-risk" funding; reviser outlines statutory rules
Summary
Reviser's office explained the legal formula that creates at-risk funding, what districts must deposit into the At Risk Education Fund and which students may receive services; KLRD and staff presented modeling options to replace or modify the free‑lunch proxy now used to generate state aid.
The Special Education and Related Services Funding Task Force heard a legal briefing on July 1 on how Kansas law creates and restricts "at‑risk" funding and the At Risk Education Fund, followed by staff modeling of several alternatives to the current free‑lunch proxy.
Tamara Lawrence of the Revisor of Statutes told the task force that the at‑risk student weighting is established in statute and “the weighting is determined by multiplying the number of students in a school district who qualify as at risk for purposes of the school finance formula by the weighting factor of 0.484.” She noted that the statute uses eligibility for free meals under the National School Lunch Act as the proxy for the students who generate the funding, and that the current numeric factor (0.484) has been in place since…
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