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Education and Environment committee schedules deeper DPI budget review; members flag school construction loan issues for military-base districts
Summary
Committee members said they will dig more deeply into Department of Public Instruction budgets and multiple K–12 funding bills next week and discussed opportunities for Grand Forks and Minot to access federal cost‑share loans for school construction tied to military bases.
BISMARCK — Members of the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division told colleagues they will pursue deeper review of education-related budgets next week and flagged multiple pending K–12 funding bills and one-time construction opportunities tied to military bases.
Representative Richter and other committee members said there are “an incredibly large number of funding bills related to DPI and related to the K‑12 funding.” Richter told the panel small changes in weighting factors can move tens of millions of dollars in the K–12 funding formula and urged coordination…
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