Governor introduces education bill without boost in state per-pupil funding number

A wide-ranging education package with provisions that include allowing students to attend any public school in the state was introduced Friday, Jan. 31, by Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the State Capitol.

The legislation also revives numerous policy goals by the Republican governor such as more state money for homeschooling and state authorization of new charter schools instead of leaving that decision up to school districts.

The governor’s package contains no increase to the state's per-pupil funding number for school districts, the Base Student Allocation, which has remained essentially flat since 2...

 
 

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