SB1236
Public schools; certain calculations in Standards of Quality, support services.
Summary
As Introduced. Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services.
Requires the Department of Education, (i) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spending on support costs as a percentage of actual school division spending on all public education costs, with certain exceptions such as food service, and ... (More) (ii) in calculating the costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula beginning with fiscal year 2029, to include all employee benefit costs incurred by a majority of school divisions, including costs related to retirement, health care, life insurance, and payout of earned but unused leave. The bill also requires support services positions to be funded based on a calculation of prevailing costs and prohibits such positions from being subject to any method of funding calculation that caps the number of funded support services positions based on a ratio of such positions to students enrolled in the school division, with the exception of certain support services positions enumerated in the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101268D
- 01/08/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/20/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Left in Finance and Appropriations
