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Committee notes senator's concern that school-choice transportation rules may penalize traditional districts
Summary
Chair Cook told the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review that Senator D'Amore raised an overarching concern that school-choice transportation rules could force traditional districts to transport nonresident students and face penalties if benchmarks are missed; the chair said this concern was not tied to a specific rule change at the hearing.
Chair Cook told the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review that Senator D'Amore raised concerns that school bus transportation rules may be creating an unfair burden on traditional school districts.
Cook said the senator’s concern was not about a specific rule change under review but about the broader effect of transportation rules on districts that serve students from schools of choice. Cook summarized that the worry was that traditional districts could be “in essence being penalized, and being forced to transport kids that are not their own, and then fined and penalized if they failed to make certain benchmarks.”
The chair framed the comment as a policy concern rather than an objection to the specific rule before the committee. No committee motion or direction followed, and members did not amend or suspend any rule during the meeting.
The remark was entered on the record to draw committee attention to the issue for possible further review outside the immediate rule record.
