Why is the Nevada State teachers union mad at the Legislature?

SB543. Nevada's new funding formula. It is supposed to solve the issue of money being supplanted from the state education budget. (See the video explaining supplanting here.)

But not everybody is happy with the new law, and they're putting a lot of pressure on a funding commission that is tasked with working out the law's details.

Chief among the concerns is that the new funding formula doesn't provide any funding. It's a hangar waiting for clothes.

But groups such as the Nevada State Education Association are also concerned about the idea that funding must follow the student. That means that students who need extra help - as ELL students, as underprivileged students, as GATE students, as disabled students - would get funding for that extra help no matter what school they went to. Even if they were the only ones who needed that extra help in those schools. That is not what we do now. What we do now is to give extra funding to schools that have large populations of students who fall into those categories. This is called "weighted funding."

Carrie Kaufman sat down with two critics of the bill who are hoping the funding commission will fix the issues they say might be harmful.