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Urban School Districts Helped At Expense Of Rural Districts?
August 21, 2017
Two Republican senators havey requested a study of a long-controversial part of Florida’s school-funding formula, arguing it helps urban school districts at the expense of suburban and rural districts.
Senate Education Chairwoman Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, and Sen. Travis Hutson, R-Elkton, sent a letter to Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, seeking a study of what is known as the “district cost differential.”
That part of the school-funding formula takes into account costs of living in different parts of the state and has repeatedly spurred legislative debates over the years. In the letter, Hukill and Hutson said, in part, that the so-called DCD has the effect of reducing money allotted to some school districts while increasing money going to other districts.
They requested that the Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability “conduct a study of the DCD and provide recommendations on what factors are used to determine the DCD, what the appropriate formula should be, how allocations should be distributed among the school districts, are there alternatives to the DCD, and whether the DCD should be eliminated.”
by The News Service of Florida
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One Response to “Urban School Districts Helped At Expense Of Rural Districts?”
A study of a study is odd since two studies have been vetoed by Gov. Christ and Scott. The DCD is very controversial and only this is being recommended because of Volusia County School Board Chair Melody Johnson going to numerous school boards and asking them to join together to simply ask for a follow 4 a dollar. Escambia County Schools will be losing over $5 million. What is the school board and their elected officials doing to elimate the DCD. Enough of seeing 55 counties subsidizing 12 wealthy counties. Enough of Education Welfare.