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Panel introduces RS 32642 to change school transportation funding, exclude some virtual students from busing reimbursements
Summary
Rep. Dan Garner introduced RS 32642 to recast school districts as authorized transportation districts, revise reimbursement formulas (including excluding some virtual students), and allow alternative vehicles with local controls on driver training; committee approved introducing the bill.
Rep. Dan Garner (District 28) asked the House Committee on Education to introduce RS 32642, a substantial revision to school transportation funding and operations that sponsors said will rename school districts in the statute as "authorized transportation districts," adjust reimbursement formulas, and change how virtual students are handled for bus funding.
The proposal: Garner described several key elements. The draft removes a previously debated block-grant description from sponsor materials but—after committee questions—staff and other sponsors clarified the block grant remains in the statute and will be used to distribute transportation funds. The RS also would exclude support units "attributable to students educated primarily through home-based or virtual meetings," a change that staff said…
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