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Legislature Recesses Until January; Hopes Dim for Action on Sparsity Aid, Relief for Low - Revenue Districts

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Schools in areas identified as rural (by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) will gain on average 1.3 per cent more — mostly through proposals for a lump sum and sparsity funds.

Increases to sparsity aid and the low revenue ceiling were in my budgets, and I am pleased to see them considered after the governor's veto cast doubt on their future,» Evers said.

These 144 school districts (comprising roughly 34 percent of Wisconsin's 422 school districts) qualified for sparsity aid based on having a membership of 745 or fewer students and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile of the district's geographic area.

This new law also permanently raises the current 725 pupil cap on school district membership for sparsity aid eligibility to 745 pupils, beginning in the 2016 - 17 school year.

In addition to the squeeze on basic funding, in a shameless attack on small rural schools, the DfE has reduced the sparsity factor by nearly 50 % below the minimum; all to fund the increases for disadvantaged pupils.

My alleged allegations regarding data sparsity is based on detailed reading, the source of which I did not cite.

A similar problem persists today and to compensate for the sparsity of weather stations in many inland regions, often with totally empty grid cells between them, the ACORN database applies a weighted average which proportionally multiplies their occurrence, at the same time dividing the occurrence of temperatures among more densely located stations in populated regions mostly on the coastal fringe.