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Department defends continued school‑choice funding; staff provided scholarship and subsidy breakdowns
Summary
Department officials told the Senate Education Committee the executive budget maintains scholarship programs, that scholarships represented about 5.6% of department disbursements last year, and offered follow‑up on funding flows and oversight for community schools, charters and e‑schools.
Aaron Rausch, a department official, and Director Steve Dakin answered senators’ questions about school‑choice funding and oversight.
Rausch told the committee that in the most recent full year the department dispersed more than $17,000,000,000 to schools, districts and providers and that scholarship programs represented about 5.6% of that total. Dakin said…
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