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Committee backs bill restoring staff-allocation flexibility for school districts

2664593 · February 21, 2025
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Summary

Representative Sonia Galaviz presented RS 32-458 to remove a statutory reduction that limited districts' ability to use staff-allocation flexibility. The committee voted to introduce the RS; supporters said it restores pre-2016 flexibility and avoids the 'use it or lose it' effect on small districts.

The Idaho House Education Committee voted to introduce RS 32-458, a cleanup measure carried by Representative Sonia Galaviz that restores school-district flexibility on staff allowances and removes a statutory provision that had reduced that flexibility incrementally since 2016.

Representative Sonia Galaviz, the sponsor, said the provision being removed had created a one-way reduction in flexibility for districts whose class sizes exceeded statewide averages. "Right now school…

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