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Education committee advances bill with differentiated English‑learner funding weights, 6‑0
Summary
A legislative education committee voted 6‑0 to report version 9.1 of an education bill that establishes differentiated weights for English learners; members pressed for more work in finance and conference committees before final passage.
A legislative education committee voted unanimously to report version 9.1 of an education bill that creates differentiated funding weights for English learners, moving the measure to the next stage of consideration.
Committee members voted 6‑0 to advance “version 9.1” after staff presented the bill language and explained how the new English‑learner (EL) weight categories and counts would be applied. The staff presentation said the bill uses standardized measures of academic language proficiency to assign weights and treats newcomers and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) as a separate, additive category.
The committee’s staff member, the meeting’s presenter, said the bill text (noted in the materials as pages 52–56) groups proficiency levels for counting and applies a uniform weight…
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