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Committee approves cleanup to staff-allowance statute that restores hiring flexibility for districts
Summary
The House Education Committee voted to introduce RS 32,458, a cleanup to statute that restores prior flexibility on staff allowance calculations and eliminates a narrowing provision added in 2016; the motion carried by voice vote.
Representative Sonia Galaviz asked the House Education Committee to introduce RS 32,458, a cleanup to statutory language governing school district staff-allowance flexibility in current code (as cited in sponsor remarks). Galaviz said the change would restore the pre-2016 flexibility that allowed districts to carry staffing allocations more flexibly following the 2007–2008 recession.
"Right now school districts are permitted to employ 9 and a…
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