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BLR presents draft adequacy report; lawmakers press for matrix, class‑size and facilities fixes

EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE · August 11, 2020
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The Bureau of Legislative Research delivered a preliminary adequacy draft explaining funding sources, the matrix and accountability indicators; legislators asked for modeling on staffing, small‑school impacts, transportation funding alternatives and an updated facilities inventory.

The Bureau of Legislative Research presented a preliminary draft adequacy report to the Senate Education Committee and members spent the meeting probing the matrix that drives state K–12 funding.

"This is your report, not BLR's report," Julie Holt told the committee when she handed out the draft and described the report’s structure—state funding sources, the matrix, categoricals, facility funding and accountability indicators. She urged members to treat the draft as a starting point for deliberations and said BLR had consolidated two years of…

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