By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, MO – Education officials are trying to figure out what the cuts mean for schools.
The Missouri House Appropriations Education Committee voted Wednesday to do away with state funding for districts to administer standardized exams for the next fiscal year. The committee put that money instead into the state school funding formula.
Under the formula, money is distributed to districts based on
several factors, and is supposed to give more state money to poorer ones.
Some legislators say that in a tough budget, more money should be go into the formula to help districts that need it most, and let them decide the best way to spend it.