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Missouri model emphasizes 'performance districts' and thresholds for supplemental weightings
Summary
Staff summarized Missouri’s student-based formula, which uses a state adequacy target derived from selected “performance districts.” Thresholds for free/reduced, special education and LEP counts determine supplemental weightings; local effort calculations and a dollar-value modifier address regional cost differences.
Matthew Willis presented Missouri’s school finance approach, which centers on a designated set of “performance districts” used to determine key thresholds and the state adequacy target.
Missouri’s model computes funding by taking weighted average daily attendance, multiplying it by a state adequacy target (initially $6,117, recalculated biennially from operating expenditures of performance…
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