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State Department of Education gets approved positions, grants and new reporting language in JFAC motion

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JFAC approved a package of Department of Education requests including two special-education positions, grants for child nutrition and underperforming charters, funding for reading indicator and data dashboards, and new data-sharing and charter-reporting language.

The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a consolidated motion adding personnel and funding for the State Department of Education for fiscal 2026 and accepted new reporting and data-sharing language.

The committee motion included funding for a dispute resolution specialist and a special education charter-school specialist (each one full-time position), one-time grants for child nutrition technology ($401,000 noted in the motion as…

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