ELEMENT
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ELLIS |
WAES |
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Provide equal access to state and
local funds.
Provide additional funds to meet additional educational needs through
pupil weighting.
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Provide $8100 basic grant for all
pupils. Amount would increase annually with inflation.
Provide additional funds to meet additional educational needs through
pupil weighting.
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Provide $8500 per pupil.
Provide additional categorical aids for high cost student populations.
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Impose a state property tax (estimated
to be 8.5 mills) to cover 1/3 of all school costs. Local districts
could impose an additional local tax rate.
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Reduce to 6 mills for K-12,
4.2 mills for K-8 and 2.4 mills for UHS. Allow 2 mill local rate
for general purposes and 3 mills for capital projects.
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Primary Aid Hold Harmless
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Set low revenue ceiling at average per pupil shared cost in the previous year.
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No provision |
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Set secondary cost ceiling at average per pupil shared cost in the previous year.
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No provision |
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Allocate to school district taxpayers on an equal per-pupil basis.
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Use school levy credit funds to
pay for additional cost of WAES proposals.
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Eliminate most categoricals.
Retain school library aids, TEACH aid and grants, Head Start supplements, tuition and transportation for open enrollment, AODA program revenue grants, school lunch grants, morning milk grants, and school breakfast grants.
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Eliminate most categoricals.
Retain school library aids, transportation aid, TEACH aid and grants, Head Start supplements, tuition and transportation for open enrollment, AODA program revenue grants, school lunch grants, morning milk grants, and school breakfast grants.
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Retain and expand categorical aids.
Transportation aid is modified to provide $1260 per pupil in sparse areas and $70 per pupil in dense urban areas.
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Special Education
•Normal Costs
•High Costs |
Create additional equalized aid per-pupil weighting based on state average costs for each disability and their special education services actually provided to disabled students. Provide full state payment of special education services which exceed 2.5 times the state average per-pupil cost.
1.5 for those pupils receiving special education services more than 60% of the day;
0.5 for those pupils receiving special education services between 21% and 60% of the day; and
0.2 for those pupils receiving special education services less than 21% of the day.
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Provide full state payment of special education services which exceed 2.5 times the state average per pupil cost.
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Create additional pupil aid weightings of:
1.1 for autism, deaf/blind, emotional disturbance, hearing disability, traumatic brain injury and vision disability;
0.5 for cognitive disability, orthopedic impairment and other impairment; and
0.15 for learning disability
and speech and language disabilities.
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No provision
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Increase categorical aid so that the total of state and federal aid would cover 80% of costs.
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Provide state reimbursement of 90% of costs above $25,500 when per pupil costs exceed
3 times state average.
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Economically Disadvantaged Students |
Create an additional equalized
aid pupil weighting of 0.2 for all children eligible for free or
reduced lunch. Require that funds must first be used to lower class
size to 15 in grades K-3 in any school which is or would become
eligible for SAGE funding. Remaining funds could be used for other
purposes now served by SAGE and P-5 programs.
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Create an additional equalized
aid pupil weighting of 0.2 for all children eligible for free or
reduced lunch. Require that funds must first be used to lower class
size to 15 in grades K-3 in any school which is or would become
eligible for SAGE funding. Remaining funds could be used for other
purposes now served by SAGE and P-5 programs.
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Provide additional grants for students
eligible for free or reduced lunch ($3200 for K-3 students and $700
for 4-12 students).
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Limited English Proficiency |
Create an additional equalized
aid pupil weighting of 0.1 for all children who are not able to
do ordinary class work in English.
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Create an additional equalized
aid pupil weighting of 0.1 for all children who are not able to
do ordinary class work in English.
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Increase categorical aid for all
LEP students to 90% of costs.
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School Facility Referendums |
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Retain referendum requirement.
Require state commission approval to receive separate state aid.
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Charter School Funding |
Provide a separate appropriation to fund charter schools.
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Revenue Limits |
Retain current structure.
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Eliminate revenue limits but have
basic pupil grant increase at same rate.
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Retain current structure, but allow
additional increase to reach adequacy level in 8 years.
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•Economically
Disadvantaged
Students |
Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.2 for pupils eligible for free or reduced lunch.
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Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.2 for pupils eligible for free or reduced lunch
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•Disabled Students |
Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.2, for pupils receiving special education services
less than 21% of the day, 0.5 for pupils receiving special education
services
21%-60% of the day, and 1.5 for pupils receiving special education
services more than 60% of the day.
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Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.15, 0.5 and 1.1 for mild, moderate and severe
disabilities.
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•Limited English
Proficiency |
Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.1 for pupils unable to do ordinary class work
in English.
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Increase pupil count for revenue
limit purposes by 0.1 for pupils unable to do ordinary class work
in English.
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•Qualified Economic Offer |
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•Low Spending Districts |
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Provide $8100 per pupil minimum.
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Provide $8500 per pupil minimum.
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•Debt Service |
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•Declining Enrollment |
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Count highest enrollment in past
5 years.
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•Other |
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Provide $300 per pupil in small,
rural districts with severe geographic inefficiencies.
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