The Committee on Weights is a volunteer group of educators and community members that develop recommended revisions to fine-tune the Weighted Student Formula (WSF), which are delivered to the Board of Education. During these meetings, Committee members review student characteristics impacting educational cost and existing types of funds currently used to support student learning. The Board determines the composition of the Committee on Weights based on a recommendation by the Superintendent and the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Hawaii. The Committee on Weights was established by Act 51 and Act 221, passed during the 2004 Legislative Session.
The primary functions of the Committee on Weights are to determine:
which operating funds should be placed in a single allocation based on student characteristics,
the student characteristics used to allocate funds to schools,
the amount of "weight" (or amount of the characteristic on the cost of education) for each characteristic, and
specific units for each characteristic.
Documents for Committee on Weights XI and earlier can be found here.