School finance-regional cost adjustment.

Wyoming's SF 51 modifies how school funding is adjusted for regional cost differences. The bill requires school districts to use Wyoming's cost-of-living index (instead of the hedonic wage index) when calculating regional cost adjustments for the education resource block grant model, with a minimum index value of 100. This change directly affects all public school districts in Wyoming by altering how their state funding is calculated based on local cost of living. The adjustment method applies to district salary calculations for all school and district staff categories, effective July 1, 2023.