[Busmgrs] Common School Fund

[KREIN Adam - ODE]

Good Morning,

There have been delays in distributing the 2018-19 Common School Fund (CSF), as we are finding widespread errors in school district ADM data used in the calculation of the CSF. Specifically, there appears to be a misinterpretation of resident county for student residency.

Below is language from OAR 581-023-0018 relating to the Common School Fund and residency law:

Resident Enrollment and Resident Average Daily Membership by County Lines: to provide a basis for budgeting purposes and for final distribution of the Common School Fund and the County School Fund to the school districts, the following procedure shall be followed: (1) Each school district shall report to the Oregon Department of Education the resident county of each student in the district's reports of enrollment, attendance, and membership. The resident county for each pupil shall be the county in which the student resides, regardless of where the student may attend school.

We discovered this issue when we compiled the ADM by County Lines report and compared the results with the ADM data. Now that the address block is a required field in the ADM data collections, it is much easier to validate the Resident County data and this is how we discovered this issue.

We are currently working with the school districts involved and hope to have this resolved quickly, and payments will follow soon thereafter. If there appears to be continued delays, we will look for an alternative plan for payments and additional updates will follow.

Thank you for your patience as we work through improving the accuracy of the ADM data and resulting CSF payments.


Together in service to students,

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Oregon achieves . . . together!



Adam Krein
State School Fund Coordinator
OFA | School Finance
503-947-5678
Adam.krein at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/ode





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