May Board of Ed at the Malden Public Library: FY20 budget

backup is here
Bell: "The Senate is now in full session debating the budget"
no news beyond what the committee released two weeks ago on the 7th of May
overall appropriation of $284M "a lot of adds and deletes that go into that 284"

O'Donnell: about $50M higher than House
shifts in foundation budget, above inflation
propose charter tuition reimbursement different: funding at $100M and more closely to current practice
benefits and fixed charges same as Gov's budget of 1/7th implementation(compared to 1/6th implementation of HWM)
"they are certainly in no way indicative of a long-term commitment, though one is implied"
economically disadvantaged decile rates: new goal rates for deciles 6-10 and closing 1/7th of gap
I have no idea where these "new goal rates" things come from; it seriously is not indicated anywhere that I have found
decile 6 set to 77% of statewide average foundation budget; decile 10 set to 100% ($8250/student)
goald rate of $2537 for all grades and closes 1/7th gap (single rate across grades) and does not look at ACCESS scores for inclusion
closes 1/7th in in-district sped rates t
and likewise out-of-district
English learners overall dollar amount is down as inflation exceeds the implemenation of 1/7th of new goal
biggest impact is on economically disadvantaged:From $12.8M in House 1 to $80.7M in
$30/pupil minimum increase
transitional aid tied to year to year tutition growth no supplemental aid to districts with high charter costs and low Ch. 70
West asks if the economically disadvantaged rate change benefits Boston; no, due to its rates of minimum aid increases
Bell: circuit breaker increased by $25.7M over FY19 "a high water mark for the circuit breaker program"
regional transportation estm. 78-79%
homeless transportation and out of district vocational level funded
no sales tax change for the trust funds Governor proposed


Peyser: broader school funding effort under way; a few notes
"how much targeted assistance funds we have...is of tremendous importance...to all of us here"