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Legislative budget analyst Paul Headlee now says House Education Chairman Bob Nonini’s math may have been correct after all, depending on how you calculate. Nonini, quizzed by a JFAC member this morning, said a 1 percent increase in discretionary funding for school districts would cost $3.5 million. State budget figures show the 1 percent increase that state Superintendent Tom Luna requested for next year would cost $7.3 million. But Headlee just got back to me to say that part of that is because of the increase in student counts; if another 1 percent were to be added on top of next year’s budget request, without any change in student counts, it’d cost $3.5 million. “There’s just different ways of looking at it,” Headlee said. For his part, Nonini said he figured the number he gave was correct – because he got it from Luna.
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