Page 26 - 2019 Washington DC Trip Packet

The School District of Janesville supports the following Blue Ribbon Commission recommendations:

REVENUE - Blue Ribbon Commission Recommendations:
 Paper #10…provide future increases in resources for school districts in the per pupil adjustment
under revenue.
 Paper #15…providing revenue limit adjustments for energy efficiency, lead testing and abatement,
mental health services, school resource officers, school safety, school nurses…
 Paper #25 Allow districts that offer full-day 4K to count participating pupils as 1.0 FTE.
 Paper #18…weighting ELL pupils as 1.2 FTE in the general school aids and revenue limit formulas.
 …restore two-thirds funding commitment…

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELL Enrollment

LEARNERS (ELL)
1000 884
Federal/State
Year Actual Funding Deficit 500 331
84
2016-2017 $2.0 M $139,000 $1.9 M
2017-2018 $2.1 M $127,000 $2.0 M 0
1993-1994 2003-2004 2013-2014
2018-2019 $2.4 M $112,000 $2.3 M

SPECIAL EDUCATION

Federal/State
Year Actual Funding Deficit
2016-2017 $18.8 M $7.0 M $11.8 M
2017-2018 $19.0 M $7.6 M $11.4 M
2018-2019 $19.6 M $7.6 M $12.0 M

POVERTY - Blue Ribbon Commission Recommendations:

 Paper # 19…weighting low-income pupils as 1.2 FTE in the general school aids and revenue limit
formulas.
Approximate Aid Difference - $6,000,000

ENROLLMENT - Blue Ribbon Commission 5-YEAR ENROLLMENT TREND
Recommendations: 10,500 10,408 10,321 10,306
10,182 10,007

Paper #11…using five-year rolling averages 10,000

9,500

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Steve Pophal, Superintendent
spophal@janesville.k12.wi.us
608-743-5050
Spring 2019

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