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Board member summarizes state school-finance task force: weightings, transportation and literacy rising as priorities
Summary
A board member who serves on the state's education funding task force reported extensive discussion of enrollment, transportation and bilingual weightings and said some members favor simplifying the formula by shifting weighting dollars to base aid — but that changes produce wide ripple effects across districts and local levy authority.
Board member Shannon (last name in transcript) reported to the Lawrence board on the June meetings of the Kansas education funding task force, which continues to debate the state school-finance formula’s weightings and whether to simplify some components by moving money into base state aid.
What the task force examined: Shannon said the group focused on high- and low-enrollment weightings, transportation funding models and bilingual (bilingual/ELL) funding. The task force heard proposals to eliminate some weightings…
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