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Committee approves bill to detach Public Education Commission staff from Public Education Department
Summary
House Bill 365 would make the Public Education Commission (PEC) administratively autonomous from the Public Education Department (PED), moving the charter school division staff to a PEC-managed State Charter Office and funding that office from the existing 2% charter oversight allocation.
The House Education Committee voted to advance House Bill 365, a measure to administratively detach the Public Education Commission from the Public Education Department and to create a State Charter Office under the PEC that would be staffed and overseen directly by the elected commission.
Sponsor testimony described the bill as "common-sense" cleanup to align administrative responsibility with the commission's statutory role as an independent authorizer. Testimony from commissioners, charter-school leaders and district staff said transferring charter-division staff to the PEC would reduce duplicative bureaucracy…
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