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Committee boosts special-education differentiated aid, restores fiscal-capacity component in HB 563
Summary
The House Education Committee amended HB 563 to raise several adequacy formula components — including a $1,040 per-pupil increase in special-education differentiated aid for FY27 — and to reinstate a form of fiscal-capacity disparity aid. The amendment passed and the bill was reported OTPA.
The House Education Committee amended HB 563 on a bipartisan vote, increasing several components of the state adequacy formula and reinstating a fiscal-capacity disparity aid for property-poor municipalities.
Representative Ladd, sponsor of the bill and lead speaker on the amendment, said the committee proposed a two-step approach. For FY 2026 the formula would remain largely unchanged with the statutory 2% increases. For FY 2027 the amendment increases the base cost to $4,351 per pupil, raises the free-and-reduced (F&R) meal per-pupil amount to $2,441, raises the English-language-learner differentiated component to $849, and increases the special-education differentiated aid from $2,100 to $3,140 per special-education ADM.
“It will jump from the 2,100 up to $3,140,” Representative Ladd said while explaining the…
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