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Deputy superintendent: voucher student counts are reported but voucher dollars generally do not flow through the district
Summary
Sellers told the board that the state's FTE counts include voucher students and charter counts, but voucher funding does not flow through district cash—charter funds pass through with a district administrative fee.
Deputy Superintendent Sellers explained that the state's FTE count added to the presentation includes Family Empowerment Scholarship (voucher) students alongside district and charter students. She emphasized that while voucher students are counted in FTE reporting, the voucher funds typically do not flow through the district's cash accounting in the same way as other state funds.
On the question of charter schools and administrative fees, Sellers said charter funding does pass through the district and the district retains an administrative fee on a graduated scale (Sellers did not have the precise breakpoint number ready in the meeting). "It's an accounting," Sellers said when explaining the inclusion of voucher FTE in statewide reports. Board members pressed the nature of those flows and Sellers offered to follow up with specific fiscal threshold numbers outside the hearing.
