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Quality Education Commission outlines QEM approach; lawmakers press for more detail

Joint Committee on Public Education Appropriation · September 30, 2025
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Summary

Tricia Mooney, chair of the Quality Education Commission, told the joint committee the QEM is a professional-judgment costing model based on prototype schools; lawmakers pressed the commission for more granular data, clearer measures of sufficiency and inclusion of special education, CTE and district weighting in the next report due after sine die.

Tricia Mooney, chair of the Quality Education Commission, presented the commission’s approach to estimating the cost of a sufficient K–12 education under the constitutional requirement enacted by Ballot Measure 1 and Article VIII, Section 8.

Mooney told the committee the commission’s work uses a Quality Education Model (QEM) driven by professional judgment, prototype schools (elementary, middle, high) and best practices drawn from research and state examples. Mooney said the model is intended to…

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