| TO: | Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Chair, House Committee on Public Education |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB221 by Howard (Relating to certain requirements relating to public school reading and mathematics instruction and textbooks.), As Introduced |
The bill's fiscal impact on the State Board for Educator Certification is not expected to be significant.
Costs to develop and administer a prereading assessment for all kindergarten students and a nationally recognized norm-referenced assessment for reading would be paid with amounts set aside from the compensatory education allotment of the Foundation School Program. Therefore, there would not be a fiscal impact to the state, but state aid payments to school districts would be reduced proportionately.
Districts would experience a reduction in funding received under the compensatory education allotment due to expenditures for the administration of a norm-referenced assessment for reading to third-grade students. Statewide, the reduction in funding associated with this aspect of the bill would be anticipated to range from $585,000 - $731,250 annually, based on an estimated 320,000 to 325,000 students taking an exam with a per-unit cost estimated to be between $1.80 and $2.25.
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CT, UP, JGM
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