This plan includes a phase in of the final two years of the General assembly school funding plan. First question is what changed and second, what did we end up cutting then? The main thing that we did is we said look, it's time that schools that continue to lose students that we not be funding empty desks right now. Districts have guarantees that a portion of their funding will not be reduced even if their enrollment goes down in the governor's budget. He slowly reduces that guarantee from 100% to 90% over two years. (02:29–02:45)
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Reiterates that schools losing students should not receive funding for empty desks.
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