Rural school districts in Massachusetts would see a 15-fold increase in state aid as part of a legislative panel's recommendations to the annual budget:
Rural school districts would see a 15-fold increase in state aid as part of a legislative panel's recommendations. One state senator said he plans to push for at least some funding in the end-of-term flurry over the next few weeks.
"It certainly helps, and it serves that purpose, but we really need a much more significant investment there. The unfunded needs of rural districts far exceed this amount," said Rep. Natalie Blais of Sunderland, who chaired the commission alongside Sen. Adam Hinds of Pittsfield. The state currently provides $50 per student in bonus aid to a new regional school district in its first year, then reduces that amount by $10 per student in each of the following four years. The commission called for offering $200 per pupil for each of the first three years of operation in a new regional district.
But the commission's report cautions that in the wake of that landmark reform,"the fiscal challenges experienced by regional school districts and rural districts generally have not decreased." "This is a very considerable, very significant contribution to how we address the gaps confronted by rural schools," Hinds said of the report."I, for one, will be trying to take advantage of this moment where we have a lot of cash on hand to move those first recommendations far north of where they currently are. That's my first priority in the coming weeks before the end of the session.
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