By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | A draft of the state budget shorts public K-12 students nearly $600 each in a year of a record surplus and revenues. The House will begin budget deliberations Monday on the state’s $9.6 billion spending plan, which has about $1.8 billion in record increases of revenues.
The House Ways and Means Committee increased the base student cost from $2,489 in 2019-2020 to $2,500 in the proposed budget, an increase of $16 million. The state formula for base student cost, however, requires $3,164 for it to be fully funded, which would cost $652 million, according to committee staff.
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