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Budget Formula Construction cont. 12

District Additional Assistance Aggregate Spending Limit
In 1980, a new public school funding formula which
Just as there is a formula that determines the Revenue equalized funding across all public-school districts was
Control Limit, there is also a formula for Capital Outlay
in A.R.S. §15-961. The District Additional Assistance established. At this same time, Arizona voters approved
a limit on what public schools are allowed to spend in
(DAA) is an allocation and, like the RCL, may be allo-
cated (in whole or in part) to either the M&O or unre- a year. This established a limit on school districts both
at the individual and the aggregate. In recent years,
stricted capital fund. The DAA calculation is a multiplica-
tion of the unweighted actual student count (100th Day Arizona school district funding has moved to current
year funding, meaning funding is based on current year
Prior Year ADM) by the appropriate support levels. The
2022-2023 formula for districts of 600 or more students enrollment. However, the aggregate spending limit
is based on prior year enrollment. In fiscal year 2021
is as follows:
enrollment statewide saw a drastic reduction due to
Grade Level Support Level COVID-19 and the reduction in funding due to distance
learning. Subsequently, in budgets for fiscal year 2022
PSD $502.33 were increased to account for students returning to the
classroom. In 2018, the state Legislature approved the
K-8 $502.33 continuation of Classroom Site Fund (CSF) for an addi-
tional 20 years (beginning in FY22). Since this was
9-12 $549.33 not sent to the voters for an exemption from the limit,
this action removed the exemption which allowed these
monies being excluded from the formula. With CSF
The sum of the above products is the DAA Base. If a
district’s student count is greater than 5% over the prior funding now in the formula, it is projected Arizona school
districts will continue to exceed the limit. To make a
year student count, the DAA Base is increased by 50%
of the actual percentage increase in the school district’s permanent change to the limit, the State Legislature
would need to refer the issue to voters, or the legisla-
student count.
ture can override this limit annually by a super-majority
vote. In fiscal year 2022, the legislature approved this
The final factor in the DAA formula is an increase for
textbooks for high school students. Prior to 1984, high override. It is estimated that Arizona School Districts
will experience a 17.1% reduction in FY23 if the legisla-
school students had to pay a rental fee for textbooks.
In 1984, the Legislature adopted a compulsory educa- ture does not approve the override.
tion statute which requires students to be 16 or to have
completed the 10th grade prior to leaving school. In Student Count of Less Than 600
conjunction with the compulsory school requirement, For small and isolated districts, the basic formula per
the Legislature commenced the process of furnishing student dollar amounts for K-8 and 9-12 are multiplied
textbooks free to high school students. In FY2022- by the corresponding weights as determined from the
2023, the allowable amount for high school textbooks chart in the Small Districts Not Designated as Isolated
is $77.65 per high school student count. It should be table on page 8 of this document and prescribed by
noted that these provisions apply only to required text- A.R.S. §15-943 (for small school districts).
books and related printed materials. School districts
may continue to charge a reasonable rental fee for
other supplementary materials.

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