Adopts definitions, requirements, and financing formulas for a Program of Basic Education and an Instructional Program that the Legislature deems complies with Article IX of the state Constitution.
Includes within the requirements beginning in 2011-12: expanded minimum instructional hours; instruction for 24 credits for high school graduation; opportunity for students to earn a meaningful high school diploma; full-day kindergarten; and supplemental instruction for students who are underachieving, non-English proficient, highly capable, and in special education.
Sets forth financing formulas based on a prototypical school model and using inputs such as class size; types of school staff; central office administration; enhanced allocations for categorical programs; and allocations for maintenance, supplies, and operating costs.
Provides for the revised definitions and financing formulas to begin in the 2011-12 school year, with the intent to be phased-in over a six-year period.
Authorizes a new pupil transportation funding formula using a regression analysis to allocate funds, phased-in beginning in the 2011-12 school year.
Creates three technical working groups to continue development of policies and formulas, prepare an implementation schedule to phase-in increased program requirements and funding, propose options for a system of compensation that supports effective teaching and options for a local funding system for levies and levy equalization, develop a Program of Early Learning, and recommend strategies to close the achievement gap.
From the Engrossed House Bill Report (ESB 6048), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House