Sentences with phrase «formulas schools deal»

It's also leading to the phase out of one of the nagging funding formulas schools deal with.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

Finding the correct formula for relieving the local governments and school districts of burdensome state mandates may probe difficult as lawmakers try to work out a deal that would pave the way for a property tax cap.

Two people familiar with the outlines of the deal, including one legislator, said the budget would direct an additional $ 627 million through the foundation aid formula and $ 340 million through other funding streams while also directing $ 75 million to help community schools.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

Indiana's A-to-F grading system came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed that former Supt. Tony Bennett amended grades for 165 schools because the underlying formula couldn't deal the nontraditional kindergarten to 10th grade format for those schools.

The error — a byproduct of confusion and deal - making in the session's final hours early Sunday morning — makes re-engineering the state's school finance formula more difficult than usual.

A massive rewrite of the state's current school aid formula pending in the House of Representatives — Senate Bill 16 — has generated a great deal of interest and controversy.

Many school districts and charter schools might have benefited from the simpler formula that was proposed by a commission Deal empaneled for most of 2015, he said.

Facing Carter, who pledged to significantly boost k - 12 spending by pursuing tax cheats, Deal took a different tack, pledging to overhaul the school funding formula.

The Fiscal Code contains language that distributes new state funding for schools through the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission's (BEFC) funding formula and brings to an end the era of powerful lawmakers cutting backroom deals to dole out new funding to schools.

Deal's successor will face the increasingly difficult task of rewriting the formula or sticking with a school funding method that has hobbled the education priorities of a string of previous governors.