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Superintendents, business officials warn budget move that bakes curriculum line into foundation will skew funding calculus
Summary
School leaders and finance officials urged the subcommittee not to fold previously separate appropriations (curriculum materials and an Internet‑connectivity grant) into the tuition foundation and to modernize complexity measures tied to at‑risk students.
A group of superintendents, school business officials and statewide associations urged the subcommittee to preserve transparency and separate line items for curriculum materials and internet connectivity rather than folding those appropriations into the tuition support foundation.
Paul Ketcham, superintendent of Batesville Community Schools, called inclusion of curriculum material reimbursements into the foundation “a budgetary stressor for our school districts” and said the structure reduces local flexibility to meet teacher‑compensation expectations. LSA analysts and senators raised the same arithmetic point: moving a previously…
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