Relating to education, providing for school finance simplification,
clarification and equity; modifying the definition of pupil unit, providing the
same weight for pupils from kindergarten to grade 12; modifying the general education revenue reservation requirement for learning year pupils; modifying the determination of the number of children eligible to receive free or reduced price lunches; equalizing school district general education revenue with basic revenue and modifying the basic revenue formula allowance; modifying general education aid; repealing the staff development and first grade preparedness programs, limited English proficiency programs aid, integration revenue, the definitions of training and experience index, compensation revenue and LEP pupil units, extended time, gifted and talented, compensatory education, basic skills, training and experience, secondary and elementary sparsity and total operating capital revenues, certain definitions under general education revenue, the operating capital levy and aid, uses of total operating capital revenue, the maintenance cost index, the transportation sparsity revenue definitions and allowance, equity revenue, regional and district equity gaps, district equity index and region, equity aid, transition revenue, transition for prekindergarten revenue and uses, transition levy and aid, basic alternative teacher and alternative compensation aid and levy, learning and development revenue and basic skills and compensatory education revenues
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