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Report: isolated and special-needs isolated funding supports remote districts but participation has declined
Summary
A Bureau of Legislative Research briefing explained isolated, special-needs isolated (S&I) and S&I transportation funding streams, noting ~16 districts received isolated funds in 2019 and that closures have reduced the number of isolated school areas since 2006.
Adrienne Beck of the Bureau of Legislative Research briefed the committee on isolated funding programs that compensate districts with geographic challenges, low student density or long travel distances to neighboring high schools.
Beck summarized the statutory history: isolated funding dates to 1983; Act 60 of 2003—the Public Education Reorganization Act—changed consolidation rules and led to Act 65 (02/2003) that protected previously identified isolated areas and set per-student isolated funding levels.…
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