Senate education panel advances student-weighted funding bill, effective 2025
The Senate Education Committee voted to advance HB 16 89, a bill to replace the state's school funding matrix with a student-weighted funding model modeled on Tennessee; specifics of 23 proposed weights will be set by the education committees during the adequacy process and the bill is slated to become effective in 2025.
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An education funding overhaul that would replace the state's current matrix with a student-weighted formula cleared the Senate Education Committee on a voice vote after its sponsor described the measure as a working model based on Tennessee.
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