By Kiera Riley | Arizona Capitol Times
Another legislative session means another waiver on the aggregate expenditure limit, and with no end in sight, lawmakers and a school finance aficionado stress the need for a permanent fix given the perpetual limits school district budgets face.
Entering the fifth consecutive fiscal year of a necessary waiver to avoid about a billion dollars in budget cuts to school districts, another single fiscal year fix cleared its first hurdle in committee Feb. 18, while legislative proposals to alter or do away with the limit altogether gained no ground.
Lawmakers and education groups agree on bringing the 1980s budget limit in touch with contemporary school funding levels, but what exactly the long-term should look like is still a budding conversation.
