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Bureau of Legislative Research opens biennial adequacy study, reviews Lakeview/Dupree legal framework and matrix
Summary
Bureau of Legislative Research staff laid out the 2024 adequacy study schedule, evidence sources, and legal framework rooted in Dupree and Lakeview. Presenters explained the funding "matrix," described surveys and site visits, and answered lawmakers' questions about equity, survey timing and legal implications.
The Bureau of Legislative Research (BLR) opened the 2024 biennial educational adequacy study with a series of presentations explaining the study's process, legal basis and legislative history.
Julie Holt, administrator in BLR's Policy and Analysis Research section, told the Senate Education Committee that this is "the twelfth adequacy study that these committees have undertaken" and described how materials will be organized in binders and in a schedule of presentations leading to the committee's November 1 report. Holt said BLR will use state funding and expenditure data, achievement scores, peer-reviewed research, and input from Arkansas educators via superintendent,…
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