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Board members report Tallahassee visit, track HB 123 and school-related scholarship options
Summary
Board members updated colleagues on state-level education bills, a potential Step Up For Students transportation scholarship, New World tutoring awards, and ideas to serve homeschool families; members also requested enrollment and consolidation information ahead of facilities planning.
Board members use the governance portion of the meeting to report on recent Tallahassee advocacy, state legislation affecting schools and options for families under proposed scholarship programs.
Board member Pearsley summarized recent Tallahassee meetings and flagged House Bill 123 (education bill) as having advanced quickly through a first committee and being moved to a third committee; she said the board’s requested alternate language was provided to legislators and that the Senate counterpart (noted in discussion as SB 140 or an equivalent number) had not advanced at the same pace. Pearsley also said Senate Bill 166, described in the meeting as an education committee measure about administrative…
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