"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 106   (1) The office of financial management, with assistance and support from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, shall convene a technical working group to recommend the details of funding formulas based on prototypical schools and an implementation schedule and submit recommendations to the legislature by December 1, 2009.
     (2) The funding formulas shall be based on minimum staff and nonstaff costs deemed necessary to support instruction and operations in prototypical schools serving high, middle, and elementary school students. The use of prototypical schools for the distribution formula does not constitute legislative intent that schools should be operated or structured in a similar fashion as the prototypes. Prototypical schools illustrate the level of resources needed to operate a school of a particular size with particular types and grade levels of students using commonly understood terms and inputs, such as class size, hours of instruction, and various categories of school staff. It is the intent that the funding allocations to school districts be adjusted from the school prototypes based on the actual number of annual average full-time equivalent students in each grade level at each school in the district and not based on the grade-level configuration of the school to the extent that data is available. The allocations shall be further adjusted from the school prototypes with minimum allocations for small schools and to reflect other factors identified in the omnibus appropriations act."