Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen will make securing public school funding her top priority in the upcoming 2021 legislative session. | Stock Photo
Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen will make securing public school funding her top priority in the upcoming 2021 legislative session. | Stock Photo
Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen will make securing public school funding her top priority in the upcoming 2021 legislative session.
“Stability in schools is needed now more than ever,” Arntzen said in a release on Montana’s official state website. “This promise to our students must be kept. I will work to get Montana’s school funding bill to the governor’s desk as early in the session as possible, as I have successfully done the past three sessions as a legislator and as state superintendent.”
Arntzen will also prioritize funding for special education, expanded internet access for students and schools, and treatment programs for at-risk students.
The estimated appropriation for BASE Aid and special education funding plus inflation is $5.2 million while the appropriation for the treatment facilities is $1.5 million with a supplemental cost of the same amount, according to the Office of Public Instruction (OPI). The broadband funding will entail the Department of Commerce reappropriating $1 million to OPI.
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