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Committee advances bill allowing traditional public schools or buildings to convert to charter status
Summary
Senator Janie Ward Engelking’s bill to allow traditional public schools or individual buildings to convert to charter status without a 60% public patron vote passed the Senate Education Committee and will move to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send Senate Bill 1097 to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation after a committee debate about allowing traditional public schools or single buildings to convert to charter status.
Sponsor Senator Janie Ward Engelking, R‑District 18, told the committee the bill would let local school districts choose to convert any configuration — from a single school building to a full district — to charter status if the district elects to do so and approves a…
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