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Committee introduces revised school transportation funding bill; virtual students removed from some reimbursements
Summary
RS 32642, introduced to the House Committee on Education, would rework school transportation reimbursements, rename district categories, exclude virtual students from certain funding, and allow alternative smaller vehicles to be reimbursed for some routes.
Representative Dan Garner introduced RS 32642 and described it as a revision of an earlier proposal. The RS renames school districts as "authorized transportation districts," revises reimbursement calculations, and excludes students educated primarily through home-based or virtual programs from some support-unit funding.
"We took the block grant out...we were getting a lot of grief about people not understanding the block grant," Garner said, then clarified during testimony that the block grant remains in the statute but the RS changes how virtual students are treated. Gideon Tullman of the State Department of…
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