Numbers, numbers and more numbers occupied the Hermiston School
Board of Education for more than an hour Monday night as the board
members began planning for the 2011-13 biennium budget.
The first task board members faced was estimating the Average
Daily Membership (weighted), or ADMw, for the 2011-12 school year.
ADMw calculates the average number of students in the district, as
well as extra funding received for certain types of students, such
as special needs or English-language learners, and the weighted
number dictates how much state funding a district will receive.
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