Sentences with phrase «sparsity formula»
Gov. Michael Rounds has signed a $ 3.2 billion budget bill for fiscal 2007 that includes a so - called «sparsity formula,» which distributes $ 1.5 million to lightly populated school districts that are too far from neighboring communities to consolidate operations.
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As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.
She pointed to a # 26 million sparsity funding factor in the national funding formula.