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Senate draft shifts Secretary of Education search to governor-initiated request, extends timing
Summary
Legislative Council said the Senate version requires the governor to request the State Board to begin a search and sets a longer overall clock for the search to start compared with the House-passed language.
The House Education Committee was briefed that the Senate draft of H.480 changes how the Secretary of Education search would begin and extends the timeline before an outside national search must start.
Beth St. James of the Office of Legislative Council said the Senate replaced the House’s automatic directive that ‘‘the state board shall begin a robust national search process not later than 60 days…
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