School advocates express skepticism over Ducey’s results-based funding
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The results-based funding plan, totaling $38 million, would provide schools that score in the top 10 percent on AzMerit tests additional money per student.
Low-income schools, defined as those with 60 percent or more students qualifying for the free or reduced lunch program, would get $400 per student if they score in the top 10 percent of all low-income schools.
High-income schools – meaning those with less than 60 percent of students on free or reduced lunch plans – would get $225 per pupil if they score in the top 10 percent of all schools.
The plan, however, didn’t appear in the proposed budget put together by the House of Representatives last month. It’s among several items still being negotiated between the Legislature and the Governor’s Office.
About 250 schools would qualify for additional funding under the plan, according to a list from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Legislature’s number-crunching unit.
Read more at AZ Capitol Times
Corrie O'Connor
