TACIR fiscal-capacity update flags virtual‑school enrollment, model changes under consideration

Jul 5, 2024

TACIR staff presented updates to the fiscal-capacity index and TISA funding components May 29, highlighting virtual-school enrollment’s effect on county fiscal capacity and recommending updated data for pilot/industrial-assessment payments.

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Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations staff on May 29 laid out the methodology behind TACIR’s fiscal-capacity index and warned that recent increases in virtual-school enrollment can lower a county’s measured fiscal capacity while concentrating service responsibility.

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