Committee weighs variable mill-rate options that tie local contribution to poverty
Department staff showed three distribution models — 90/10, 75/25 and 50/50 property/poverty mixes — and explained how variable mill-rate expectations would raise or lower local mill targets, producing redistributions that could produce winners and losers even after the regional-index correction.
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The Department of Education demonstrated to the committee how introducing a poverty measure into the "ability to contribute" calculation would produce variable mill-rate expectations that shift the local/state distribution of EPS funds.
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