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USBE finance committee backs phased fix to charter SPED funding, forwards R277-479 to full board
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education Finance Committee voted to forward draft rule R277-479, which phases down disproportionate special-education weighting for certain charter schools and applies caps to all charters, recommending a multi-year phase-in to balance fiscal and student impacts.
The Utah State Board of Education Finance Committee voted to send draft rule R277-479 to the full board after agreeing to recommend a phased approach that would reduce unusually high special‑education weighting for some charter schools.
Chair Cindy Davis said the committee needed to act to bring charter funding “in line with our own legalities” while protecting students. Dale Frost, the board’s minimum school program administrator, told members the draft will extend caps that previously applied only to new and expanding charter schools and correct a feature of the prior-year ADM methodology that allowed some charters’ SPED WPUs to grow out of proportion to their…
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