Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories, federal fund deduction methodology.

Public school funding; nonpersonal cost categories;federal fund deduction methodology; support services. Requiresthe Department of Education, (i) in calculating nonpersonal costsin the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costsassociated with leased facilities and work-related employee travel and (ii) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standardsof Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spendingon support costs as a percentage of actual school division spendingon all public education costs, with certain exceptions such as foodservice. The bill also requires support services positions, whichincludes positions in each local school division that the schoolboard deems necessary for the efficient and cost-effective operationand maintenance of its public schools, to be funded based on a calculationof prevailing costs and prohibits such positions from being subjectto any method of funding calculation that caps the number of fundedsupport services positions based on a ratio of such positions tostudents enrolled in the local school division.