Ample School Funding Project
School Information and Research Service has been instrumental in
organizing and implementing the Washington State Ample School Funding
Project. The project researched the current K-12 funding system in
Washington state and proposed remedies to amply fund a general and
uniform system of K-12 finance designed to get all students to the state
standards.
Executive Summary
The Ample School Funding Project is designed to document the cost of
providing to school districts the ample resources they will need to
bring all students to state mandated standards by 2008. The project will
undertake a technical analysis of the funding for programs identified as
basic education and a professional judgment analysis of the funding that
will be necessary to bring all students to state academic standards. In
addition the project will study school district efficiencies and
recommend remedies to resolve inequitable funding formulas in the K-12
finance system formulas. The goal of the project is to give policy
makers, educators, budget analysts, and taxpayers a solid foundation of
documented facts and figures that will be needed to establish
sustainable, equitable and ample resources for our public schools as
required by Washington State's Constitution and the 1977 and 1983 Doran
school funding decisions.
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