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How weightings feed Kansas's school finance: base aid times weighted FTE
Summary
Reviser Jason Long explained to the Education Funding Task Force that state foundation aid equals the statutory base multiplied by a district's weighted full-time-equivalent (FTE) enrollment; changes to weightings or the base ripple through local foundation aid, local option budgets and supplemental state aid.
Reviser Jason Long told the Education Funding Task Force that Kansas's state foundation aid is calculated by multiplying the statutorily defined base aid for student excellence by a district's weighted full-time-equivalent enrollment.
The memo explains why the weighting decisions matter: "The weightings are just factors, that are applied either to the whole FTE enrollment or a portion of a school district's FTE enrollment to account for certain student demographics and the costs associated with providing education for those students," Long said.
Why it matters: the weighted-FTE step sits between local and state funding. A higher weighting increases total foundation aid for a…
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