JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi lawmakers will again attempt to rewrite the state’s school funding formula in the legislative session beginning Tuesday, but it remains unanswered how they will ...

JUNEAU — A proposal to rewrite the traditional formula for the Permanent Fund dividend is advancing from committee to the full Senate, and lawmakers say it could be part of a grand compromise on ...

The following offers highlights of the recent legislative sessions. Precollegiate enrollment figures are based on fall 2003 data reported by state officials for public elementary and secondary schools ...

However, simply appropriating more money via the existing formula does not solve the problem. Past experience has demonstrated increasing the amount of aid does not slow the rate of property tax ...

The Kansas Senate education committee has asked the state education department to draft a new school finance formula based on the results of a recent state survey of education costs in 55 of Kansas’ ...

With only three weeks left of the three-month legislative session, what was expected to be the all-consuming issue of the session has not come to pass: a GOP-led rewrite of the state adequate ...

Efforts to rewrite Mississippi’s school funding formula are expected to ramp up next week as legislators meet with an education consultant advising on the effort, sources have told the Clarion Ledger.