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Senate Education Committee votes to print school-choice bill RS 31992 after policy debate
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to send RS 31992 to print for drafting after members debated accountability, funding caps and open-enrollment changes. Sponsors described the plan as expanding parental choice while opponents called it a voucher bill.
The Senate Education Committee voted to print RS 31992, a proposed school-choice measure that would add $50 million in new state funding to a program already carrying $30 million and create a set of accountability and open-enrollment changes, senators said during a committee meeting.
Senator Dave Lynn, who introduced RS 31992 to the committee, framed the proposal as an attempt to expand parental choice while building guardrails and accountability. “Choice is very important,” Lynn said, and described the bill’s objectives as “fair, accountable, responsible, and transparent.” He told senators the measure would cap new funds at $50,000,000 while utilizing the existing $30,000,000 in the Empowering Parents program, producing an $80,000,000 total pool in his…
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