Published: 2017
Total Pages:
Get eBook
The Legislative Assembly approved 2017 House Bill No. 1318, which provides the Legislative Management appoint a committee to: examine how state aid for elementary and secondary education is determined and distributed under the state aid funding formula, analyze the impact of the state aid provided through the funding formula, and consider potential necessary changes to the funding formula to ensure equity, adequacy, and sustainability; and examine the delivery and administration of elementary and secondary education in the state and the short- and long-term policy and statutory changes that may result from or be necessitated by 21st century technological advances and global economics. The 2017 Assembly also approved House Bill No. 1423, which provides for a study of the portion of the elementary and secondary education funding formula which relates to the utilization of in lieu of property tax funds for the purpose of identifying and addressing any inequities in the application of the formula.