Dr. Weldon emphasizes new financing advantages for Chambers County Schools

Lafayette, ala. (WTVM) changes could come through the Raise Act to Alabama Public Schools, a new educational formula for educational financing that better supported underverts and highly related students by bringing several hundred thousand dollars into school districts.

Dr. Sharon Weldon, the Superintendent of the Chambers County Schools, says that this money will be transferred to students' success. You have to officially find out how every dollar is spent, and two superintendents already have some ideas in mind.

“Will we become a difference in what this money does? We will see a difference,” said Weldon.

The Assist Act stands for the renewal of Alabama in the excellence of students. Governor Kay Ivey recently signed it in the law. The aim is to give schools with a higher student population in poverty and a high population of English -speaking learners and talented students. Weldon says that is what you need.

“There is some flexibility, but in this flexibility we have to show that the money we receive for our students in poverty must show that we tackle these needs and do things to better serve these students,” she said.

According to Weldon, the school district will receive around 170 US dollars per student in poverty. You will also receive about 345 US dollars for every talented student. Dr. Weldon says that the money can go to the hiring of people to hire tutoring and reading coaches.

“I constantly say that the greatest influence occurs when we make sure that we touch these students,” added Weldon. “Not if we get programs and not if we only get more things, but when we actually get people who come in and sit down at this table and work with only a few students.”

The groups of schoolchildren who deal for the decision in every school are students in poverty, English -speaking learners, gifted students and special needs.

“These population groups, of which we know they need some additional things, and they are things that we only had to finance on site,” said Weldon. “We are grateful that our people in Montgomery look at it and listen to us.”

Legislators say that the Raise law will come into force at the beginning of the next financial year in October.

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