Sentences with phrase «school equalization aid»

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Nebraska categorizes its current school finance formula as «equalization aid.»

The state of Arizona and some of its school districts face a budgetary tangle because of an unprecedented U.S. Education Department decision that the state's funding - equalization plan fails to meet standards set under the federal impact - aid program.

They also said the compensatory - education program should support more schoolwide projects — in which the money is used to upgrade the entire school, rather than to benefit only eligible students — and should be supplemented by a separate aid program designed to stimulate education - funding equalization within states.

The Texas Attorney General concluded that providing public funds to parochial schools through tuition equalization grants under a religiously neutral program is not inherently unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution because although Texas» second Blaine Amendment (Article VII, Section 5) «prohibits aid to sects -LSB-,]» «not all denominational institutions are sectarian in the constitutional sense.»

General equalization aid increases by $ 79.8 M while School Levy Credits increase by another $ 75M for a total of $ 747.4 M and the First Dollar Levy Credit is introduced for $ 75M.

AEF has tried to equalize access to state and local resources through the equalization aid formula so that the school property tax burden would be spread fairly.

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

The Madison school district receives about $ 2,000 per pupil in state equalization aid, but will have to expend $ 7,200 - 7,800 for each voucher student; a portion of our property and state income taxes will support private, religious schools.

To address this wealth disparity problem, the state uses an equalization aid formula to calculate financial aid to school districts.

Walkers calls for a $ 105.6 million school levy tax credit for each of the budget's years and a $ 108.1 million increase in general equalization aid in 2016 - 17.

In other words, a negative tertiary school district would not lose equalization aid for capital expenditures that exceed the tertiary guarantee and are funded by referenda.