PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s budget proposal revives a school performance funding plan that failed to gather lawmaker support last year.
This year’s revamped plan will award $40 million to schools where individual students show improvements on test scores. It also puts more emphasis on growth in test scores rather than high scores alone.
Those revisions are intended to counter one of the biggest criticisms of last year’s plan. That plan allowed higher-performing schools that are often in affluent areas to draw extra money for their high test scores, while schools in poorer areas with lower test scores had little chance of a funding boost.
The plan also uses all new money, so schools that don’t win extra cash won’t see their regular funding drop as with last year’s plan.
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