Election Toolkit 2006: School Funding

• Missouri NEA promotes a proactive agenda that strengthens public education and public educators for the benefit of Missouri's children.

• MNEA also continues to lead the fight to defeat the many harmful proposals pushed by out-of-state extremist groups and other opponents of public education.

School formula

• MNEA supports common sense, data-driven revisions to the state's school funding formula.

• The Augenblick adequacy study shows that the SB 380 formula was $900 million short of adequate funding when it was fully funded in 2001.

• The SB 380 formula was $800 million underfunded last year.

• The newly enacted Senate Bill 287 formula reduces full funding cost to $200 million below that of the current formula.

• The new formula base level funding and at-risk aid should be raised, and the new formula should be funded within two years.

Further Discussion

• What impact does inadequate funding have on your district, your school and your classroom?

• What impact does investment in education have on economic development in your community?

• How would adequate funding affect your parents and your students?

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