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Legislators tentatively agree on task force makeup, school-size guidelines and budget items in education draft
Summary
Legislators and staff reached tentative agreement on the composition of a district task force, student-minimum and cap language, and budget allocations including $4 million overall with $100,000 for mapping work during a meeting to reconcile competing education bill drafts.
Legislators and staff tentatively agreed on several structural and budget elements of a reconciliation draft of an education bill, including increasing legislative representation on a district task force, keeping a roughly 4,000-student guideline with an 8,000-student cap and assigning money for mapping and consultant support.
The discussion, which referenced concerns in rural Vermont about school size and community schools, produced a tentative agreement to have three legislators from each legislative body on the district task force, with one co-chair from each body; an approximate 4,000-student minimum where “the language is fairly wiggly,” and an 8,000-student cap retained from an earlier proposal. A staff member said the map-related work would be supported from the appropriation in the bill and that “the 100,000 is part of the 4,000,000.”
Why it matters: The task force composition, school-size language and mapping money shape how…
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