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State board outlines scholarship and grant budgets; office asks for staff and program funding
Summary
The Office of the State Board of Education's Scholarships and Grants program requested funding for the Bridging and Underserved Educator Incentive program and a software engineer to maintain scholarship application systems; staff told the committee database maintenance and award timing drive variation in expenditures.
Kevin Campbell, a Legislative Services Office analyst, presented the Scholarships and Grants budget, noting the program administers five scholarship and grant programs on behalf of the State Board of Education and that nearly all program spending goes to trustee and benefit payments (scholarships), with roughly 0.5% in personnel costs.
Campbell told members that timing and award cycles cause expenditure variability, and that program spending can change with applicant counts and federal grant…
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