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By Holly Yettick
Rocky Mountain News, September 08, 2004 —
Each child would have a price on his or her head and school districts
would decide what it would be under a bill that Colorado House Majority
Leader Keith King plans to introduce in the next legislative session.
The bill would fundamentally change the way Colorado
funds education by giving 95 percent of state funds to individual
schools and 5 percent to central office administration. The proposal
is based on a theory by UCLA management professor William Ouchi.
Ouchi and King will speak at a luncheon today at the Daniels Fund
in Denver.
Under King's proposal, each of Colorado's 178 school
districts would come up with a formula that assigns a certain amount
of state money to each child, based on educational needs. A severely
disabled special education student, for example, might get $18,000,
while a nondisabled child might get $4,000.
When a child enrolls, the school would get the entire
dollar amount.
Under Colorado's current school finance law, the state
gives districts a specified amount of money for each pupil, based
partially on students' educational needs. But the additional money
districts get for special education students, for instance, can
be spent as the district chooses.
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