LINCOLN, Neb. ( Nebraska Examiner ) - Members of a new commission set to review and offer long-term solutions to how Nebraska funds its 245 public school districts hope to create more stability and predictability.

But the path there, and a major hurdle evident during the commission’s second meeting Monday and likely to persist, is how fast and deeply the commission should dive into policy writing, if at all.

“To reach clear towards … the policy conversation that would be all-inclusive of state voices, I think there’d be a number of voices missing at the table,” said Liz Standish, an associate superintendent with Lincoln Public Schools.

Standish described the group as “really a TEEOSA study group,” referring to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunity Support Act that passed in 199

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