00                         HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 10                                                                        
01 Relating to a task force and the school district cost factor adjustments for education                                  
02 funding.                                                                                                                
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:                                                                         
04       WHEREAS a study conducted in the state in 2004 by the Institute of Social and                                   
05 Economic Research recommended that the school district cost factors under AS 14.17.460(a)                               
06 be increased to more accurately reflect cost differentials in rural school districts; and                               
07       WHEREAS a study published in 2003, by the Institute for Social and Economic                                     
08 Research also recommended that the school district cost factors under AS 14.17.460(a) be                                
09 increased to more accurately reflect cost differentials in rural school districts; and                                  
10       WHEREAS the studies of school district cost factors should be valid, defensible, and                            
11 decisive; and                                                                                                           
12       WHEREAS the rates of inflation, building, and energy costs, and other costs affecting                           
13 education are significantly higher in rural school districts than in urban school districts; and                        
14       WHEREAS the current district cost factors under AS 14.17.460(a) do not accurately                               
15 reflect the cost differentials among the school districts.                                                              
16       BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives establish a seven-member task                                  

01 force on school district cost factors to evaluate proposals that are based on available facts and                       
02 conclusions pertaining to school district cost differentials.  The task force shall be comprised                        
03 of at least four members of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the                               
04 House of Representatives and three members, appointed at the discretion of the President of                             
05 the Senate.  The task force shall prepare a written report with recommendations to be                                   
06 delivered to the House of Representatives and the Senate not later than January 20, 2006.  The                          
07 task force members will receive no additional compensation and shall serve at the pleasure of                           
08 the Speaker of the House of Representatives.