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Lee County Schools staff outline 2025 legislative priorities including funding, certification changes and school safety
Summary
Staff previewed district 2025 legislative priorities: administrative efficiency, increased per-student funding, East Zone CTE appropriation, safe-schools allocation, changes to social-worker certification requirements, stronger financial tracking, and inclusion of pre-K in DOE schoolhouse calculations.
District government-relations staff Christina Houlihan and Riley Kempton presented the Lee County Schools' 2025 legislative priorities to the board on Jan. 7. Staff said priorities arose from individual board member input, cabinet review and consultation with lobbyists and would be carried to Tallahassee during the upcoming session.
Major asks include: an administrative-efficiency agenda to reduce regulatory burdens; a requested per-student funding increase of at least 5% (from $8,959 to a projected $9,431 per…
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