{"id":88797,"date":"2025-02-15T01:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-lawmakers-recommends-blended-k-12-funding-model\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T01:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:54:26","slug":"alabama-lawmakers-recommends-blended-k-12-funding-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=88797","title":{"rendered":"Alabama lawmakers recommends blended K-12 funding model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A commission of Alabama lawmakers adopted its report and recommendations for the legislature, emphasizing a blended K-12 school funding model that combines the current Foundation Program, created 30 years ago, with additional need-based funding for students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report will serve as a roadmap for the legislature to decide how to fund K-12 schools. During the legislative process, more details for the plan will be defined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recommendation, which emerged after six meetings, reflects the commission\u2019s finding that the state\u2019s existing funding formula must be revamped to better address challenges and support students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commission, composed of budget committee members from both chambers, presented the pros and cons of its three options during Thursday\u2019s meeting. The options were to leave the current funding model as is, completely overhaul it with a solely student-based model or take the hybrid approach the commission has been leaning toward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hybrid approach would be phased in over a few years to ensure that the state\u2019s finances allow it, but the report reads as ideally five years or less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senate Education Budget Chair Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, explained that this process should be gradual for the overall benefit of the public schools, but it would be best to move as quickly as allowed by available funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe optimal is we do it quickly. The practical, or the reality, is we go as quickly as we\u2019re financially able to go. We don\u2019t want to overcommit where we have a situation of we shoot high and then we\u2019re not able to fulfill our commitments,\u201d said Orr.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawmakers suggested that legislation could include restrictions to ensure funds benefit targeted populations and stressed the importance of accountability to ensure these funds are used effectively. The adopted report also recommends transparency measures within the legislation to monitor student growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat would be requiring more reporting from the systems. If we give you extra money over time- and it\u2019s gonna take a while- but if we give you extra money, what type of results are we getting for the extra investment we\u2019re giving our schools that, today, have particular needs that they need to address,\u201d said Orr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, suggested an initial boost for failing schools to help them during the transition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to do a one-time allocation to all 200 failing schools we have in this state so that we can get back up to that point,\u201d Smitherman said. \u201cI know that we have the capability to provide that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commission of Alabama lawmakers adopted its report and recommendations for the legislature, emphasizing a blended K-12 school funding model that combines the current Foundation Program, created 30 years ago, with additional need-based funding for students.\u00a0 The report will serve as a roadmap for the legislature to decide how to fund K-12 schools. 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