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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
I raised the same query about geographical
sparsity in the Mannian reconstruction in my response to the response — but unfortunately this didn't pass
through the vagaries of real climate moderation (which is pretty typical).