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District finance director summarizes 2025 legislative outcomes affecting schools
Summary
Sean Fitzgerald, the district’s executive director of business and finance, summarized 2025 legislative activity for the board, highlighting changes to special education funding, MSOC increases, a TK enrollment cap, levy-lid adjustments and the Clean Buildings Energy Act language.
Sean Fitzgerald, Wenatchee School District executive director of business and finance, briefed the board on the 2025–26 legislative session at the May 13 meeting and outlined bills the district will track for funding and compliance.
Fitzgerald said Senate Bill 5263 (special education) passed and condensed the previous two-tier funding model into one model while increasing funding levels and lowering the safety net threshold; he noted the state removed the…
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