SB 5465 - DIGEST

Requires funding for additional school nurses, guidance counselors, and family and community engagement coordinators to be phased in beginning with the 2021-2023 biennium, and continue to be phased in each year until fiscal year 2025.

Requires the legislature, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, to begin phasing in funding for content-specific professional learning days for certain staff, and, at a minimum, allocate funding for three professional learning days in the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years.

Requires each school district board of directors, by fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, to adopt an unrestricted minimum fund balance for their general fund of no less than 8.5 percent of their prior year's state apportionment.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to calculate the actual minimum fund balance amount for each school district for the directors' review and adoption.

Provides for the allocation of state funding to support school districts in offering institutional education programs.