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Committee backs modest increase to sparsity funding cap for isolated school districts
Summary
Lawmakers advanced Senate Bill 70 to raise the sparsity maximum for eligible rural school districts by a one‑time catch‑up that proponents say fixes a long-standing indexing oversight; the committee voted unanimously to pass the measure.
The House Committee on Appropriations voted unanimously to pass Senate Bill 70, which raises the maximum sparsity benefit available to certain geographically isolated school districts.
Sponsor Representative Jana Hunt and Dr. George Shipley, superintendent of Bison School District, told the committee the change corrects an indexing omission: the sparsity cap first set in earlier statutes was not indexed to inflation, leaving eligible districts behind. Shipley said the bill would add a one‑time increase of $27,000 to the cap—bringing the limit to…
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