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Committee backs redirecting class-size funds toward early grades
Summary
Senate Bill 32 would refocus existing class-size reduction funding toward early primary grades (K–3 over time) and permit local discretion in how funds are used; the committee gave the bill a favorable recommendation.
The Senate Education Committee gave unanimous support to Senate Bill 32, an interim-committee bill that would re-target the state’s class-size reduction funding toward earlier grades.
Senator Fillmore, presenting the bill, said the original class-size reduction program—created roughly two decades ago—has functioned largely as a maintenance fund and has not materially…
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