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State aid numbers good for GIPS, bad for Northwest

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com

A preliminary printout of new state aid numbers shows the Grand Island school district will receive almost an additional $150,000 even though overall aid for Nebraska schools was sliced by $66 million.

Among the school districts that would get less money are the Northwest school system, which would receive approximately $1 million less than originally thought.

State aid was supposed to be certified to all Nebraska school districts on Feb. 1, but projections of lower tax receipts caused all the numbers to be revised.

None are final until approved by Nebraska lawmakers, although LB988 has been voted out of the Education Committee.

Grand Island Superintendent Steve Joel said the city school district apparently received more money because the revised state aid figures preserved the poverty portion of the formula for distributing money to schools.  Full Story

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