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Lawmakers considering short-term help for school districts, funding formula fix unlikely during 2025 session

A Free Press Fest panel explored what funding changes are needed to address challenges facing Montana school districts.

According to a newly published roadmap from the Bureau of Land Management, about 572,000 acres of land in Montana have some baseline potential for utility-scale solar development, more than double the acreage the agency identified in the draft Environmental Impact Statement it released in January.

The revised Western Solar Plan released in late August identifies 31 million acres of BLM-administere...

 

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