Sentences with phrase «sparsity aid to a school district»

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Governor Walker said the proposed $ 200 increase in per pupil aid matches what Dr. Tony Evers, the newly re-elected state superintendent, asked for and does not include sparsity aid that will be given to rural school districts.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

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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.

Assembly Bill 824, (pictured above) authored by Rep. Jeff Mursau (R - Crivitz) and Sen. Tom Tiffany (R - Hazelhurst), adjusts sparsity aid eligibility to allow the Crivitz and Spring Valley school districts to continue to receive sparsity aid payments this year, without reducing sparsity aid payments to any other qualifying district.