Montana Public School Funding Formula Approved

The U.S. Department of Education has accepted the state’s public school funding formula distributed to approximately 400 public school districts. The Montana state funding formula is unique as it is driven by prior year student enrollment and a 3-year average and has specific components that safeguards Montana’s very rural school and allows for student enrollment changes. The new federal calculation depends on an annual student enrollment that conflicted with Montana’s complex school funding formula.