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TACIR fiscal-capacity update flags virtual‑school enrollment, model changes under consideration
Summary
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.
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.
Senior research associate Presley Powers explained that the TISA base funding for FY24–25 is set at $7,075 per student and described the regression-based fiscal-capacity model TACIR uses to estimate counties’ ability to fund education. She said variables include per-pupil revenue,…
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