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AOE presents school finance data, warns governance change alone won’t guarantee savings
Summary
The Agency of Education told a legislative committee it has improved data collection and staffing and is preparing models to test Act 73 district-consolidation savings, but cautioned that governance changes alone — without operational reforms — are unlikely to deliver large cost reductions.
The Agency of Education on Tuesday briefed the joint education finance committee on updated school finance data, the long-term weighted average daily membership (ADM) process and the fiscal implications of Act 73 proposals to form larger districts.
"We have filled our education finance director position, and that's Kelly Murphy who's joining me today," Gilbert Campbell, deputy secretary and chief of operations for the Agency of Education, told the committee while introducing the finance team. "We've invested in people resources as part of our reorg." Kelly Murphy, the agency's new education finance director, said she was "looking forward to coming back over on to the state side of things, at a really critical time," and signaled the team would provide updated modeling and support.
AOE senior fiscal staff described an iterative data-collection process that produced a preliminary statewide average growth estimate of 5.8 percent for…
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