Panel proposes simple smoothing for small‑school funding to eliminate 'cliffs'
Staff proposed eliminating sharp funding cliffs for schools under 50 students by calculating a school’s 50‑student funding level and reducing it by 1.5 percentage points for each student below 50, producing a smooth, linear taper rather than an abrupt switch to a different staffing rule.
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The Select Committee heard a staff proposal to remove abrupt funding “cliffs” that occur when a school’s average daily membership (ADM) drops below 50 students. Under the current model, schools at or above 50 students receive the model’s full staffing and resource allocations; schools under 50 are funded under a different staffing rule (approximately one teacher per seven students and a single assistant principal), producing large, non‑linear reductions in funding for relatively small changes in enrollment.
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