Results-based funding: Governor’s budget proposal and fiscal year 2019 analysis

Since Arizona Legislators approved Senate Bill 1530 in 2017, about $39 million a year in results-based funding has gone to nearly 300 public schools whose students scored in the top 10 percent statewide on AzMERIT.

For fiscal year 2020, Gov. Ducey’s  proposal would use the A-F school accountability system instead of AzMERIT to distribute results-based funding, which factors in additional measures of school performance including academic growth and college readiness in addition to proficiency on the statewide assessment.

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