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State Board’s scholarships and grants budget requests focus on educator incentive and IT staffing
Summary
The State Board of Education's Scholarships and Grants program requested funding for the Bridging and Underserved Educator Incentive, and for a software engineer post to maintain scholarship systems; analysts noted timing variability in scholarship payments and said nearly all program spending is trustee/benefit payments.
Kevin Campbell of the Legislative Services Office presented the Scholarships and Grants budget to JFAC on Feb. 24 and said the program — administered by the Office of the State Board of Education — is largely trustee and benefit payments rather than personnel spending.
Campbell said 99.5% of the program’s spending is trustee and benefit payments and roughly 0.5% is personnel. The program houses five state scholarship and grant programs,…
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