Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-128

EDU 128

Rural Sparsity Aid

Messrs. Hinds, Humason, Moore and Cyr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting, after section 114, the following new section: -

SECTION 115.  The department of elementary and secondary education shall conduct a feasibility study relative to establishing a formula for aid to be distributed to rural school districts in the Commonwealth.   Said formula shall include, but not be limited to, such criteria as total student enrollment, density of student enrollment per square mile, per capita income and other factors pertaining to rural school district funding.  The department shall report the results of the study to the joint committee on education, the house and senate committees on ways and means and the rural policy commission no later than January 1, 2018.