Education committee lays out Jan'July adequacy study schedule, citing Lakeview court mandate

Julie Johnson Holt, administrator of the Policy Analysis & Research Section, told the joint Senate and House Education Committee on the committee's opening day that the biennial adequacy study will run from January through July and will follow an evidence-based approach.

Holt said the bureau will present a series of reports and data products across the months: an initial legal and historical framework, achievement data and testing reports, facilities funding, a line-by-line review of the foundation funding matrix, categorical and supplemental funding reports, teacher compensation and retention analyses, and inflation and health-insurance inputs from consultants in July. "It's really more of a marathon than a race," Holt said, describing the cycle of presentations, analysis, and committee decision points.

The presentation tied the study to the Lakeview school-district lawsuit and subsequent court rulings that established the legislature's duty to define and monitor an…