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Figuring out your district’s weighted funding | Thoughts on Public Education

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Figuring out your district’s weighted funding

It takes calculating; yardstick is 47% increase by 2018-19
By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The state Department of Finance has released the district allocations under Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised plan for weighted student funding that shaves off the peaks, fills in the valleys and includes other changes that make allotments flatter, arguably fairer and potentially more politically palatable to those who criticized aspects of the formula.
The 77-page spread sheet of district and charter school allocations doesn’t reveal – and inquiring minds will want to know – how districts compare with one another and with a statewide average once the formula is fully funded in 2018-19. The raw numbers are there