N.D. Lawmakers Prepare To Rewrite School-Finance System
Amid agreement that North Dakota's school-funding system is flawed, the state legislature is gearing up this month to consider Gov. Edward T. Schafer's plan to fix the problem. But the bipartisan proposal, supported jointly by the Republican Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction Wayne G. Sanstead, a Democrat, still faces a rough reception.
As part of a $40 million increase in funding he has proposed for K-12 education in the 1995-97 biennium, Governor Schafer would put $25.5 million into a supplemental fund earmarked for evening out inequitable funding among school districts.
But the supplemental aid would benefit only about 151 of the 243 districts in the state, a situation that Mr. Sanstead noted is "fraught...
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