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House Education continues H.454 debate, focuses on how many education regions and who draws lines
Summary
Committee members debated how many supervisory regions H.454 should create, whether existing Career and Technical Education (CTE) boundaries could be used, and who should draw lines; Ways and Means asked for a number or narrow range to run fiscal models.
Members of the House Education Committee met Tuesday, March 11, to continue discussion of H.454 — the bill framing regional education districts and the so-called “Taylor equation” for school funding — centering on how many supervisory regions to create and who will draw district boundaries.
The committee agreed Ways and Means needs a concrete number or a narrow range so it can model impacts under the bill’s foundation-formula construct. Members debated three immediate options that circulated in the meeting: nine, 12 and 15 regions, and discussed an existing map based on Career and Technical Education (CTE) center regions as a speedier starting point.
Why it matters: Ways and Means must produce fiscal modeling that underpins any change to the state’s school funding formula. Without a number to use for that modeling, committee members said, the fiscal effects of the bill…
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