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Preston County leaders press lawmakers to change state school-aid formula for rural districts
Summary
Preston County School Board members and visiting legislators discussed proposed changes to West Virginia's school aid formula, saying the decades-old formula disadvantages rural districts and that charter and Hope scholarship enrollments are eroding local personnel funding.
Preston County school officials and state legislators spent more than an hour Wednesday focusing on the state's school aid formula and its effects on rural districts.
"Education is the basis of everything," said Mr. Dennis, one of the legislators at the meeting, urging local input on formula changes and saying the state must balance statewide fairness with county needs. Board members and staff said the current formula, they said, has not been substantially updated in decades and can leave rural counties at a competitive disadvantage.
Board staff described concrete local impacts. Officials said district…
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