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Local officials press lawmakers on school funding formula and voucher impacts
Summary
School board members and lawmakers at the breakfast pressed for changes to the state funding formula, cited declining enrollment and special-education shortfalls, and discussed voucher impacts and potential decoupling as a remedy.
School funding dominated several audience questions at the legislative breakfast, with local school-board members and candidates asking legislators to address what they described as a broken funding formula that forces repeated referendums.
A local candidate for school board said the formula has not kept pace with inflation and forces districts to rely on referendums and…
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