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Negotiators tentatively agree on task force size, map timeline and funding details in education bill draft
Summary
Legislative negotiators reached tentative agreement to expand a proposed redistricting task force to three legislators per chamber, kept a roughly 4,000-student minimum and an 8,000-student cap in the draft, and discussed map and meeting timelines and budget items including $4 million overall and a $100,000 subamount.
Legislative negotiators working on an education bill reached tentative agreement to expand the task force that will work on school maps and policy recommendations, and agreed to keep student-size thresholds and budgetary language in the current draft.
The negotiators said they would move from two to three legislative members from each chamber on the task force, with each chamber electing its own chair so the panel would have co-chairs from the House and the Senate. Legislator (Speaker 2) summarized the change as a practical way forward: “we would like to have 3 legislators from each branch, from each body. And with the ... 2 legislators, 1 from each body being the co chairs.”
The draft retained an enrollment cap and a student-minimum threshold. Legislator (Speaker 2) said the language keeps an 8,000 cap and “we did keep the 4,000, student minimum,” while acknowledging the bill’s wording is imprecise: “it basically…
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