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State calculation change trims Big Spring SD’s cyber-charter tuition estimate by about $431,000
Summary
Board finance presenter Donna Lince said new state rules on calculating cyber charter tuition will let the district take deductions (certain students, tax-collection expenses, portions of operations and student activity), reducing the 2025–26 cyber tuition estimate to about $4.3 million from an expected $5.3 million.
Donna Lince explained a change in how the state calculates cyber charter tuition, which allows districts to deduct some students from the ADM base and claim certain expense deductions. Using the district’s Dec. 22 enrollment (211 students), Lince estimated cyber tuition for 2025–26 at about $4.3 million—“approximately 431,000 less than what we have in the budget.”
She walked the board through the components: the district counted brick-and-mortar versus cyber-enrolled regular-education and special-education students and applied the four state rate categories and allowable deductions (tax collection, 60% of operations and maintenance, and 60% of student activity). Lince said those changes reduced the district’s projected payment to cyber charters relative to original budget assumptions.
