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House bill would rewrite Crowley Act funding rules, add fiscal overseer; commissioners, advocates clash
Summary
House Bill 5389, introduced at the request of Providence, would rewrite the Crowley Act's maintenance‑of‑effort calculation for school takeovers, curtail the education commissioner's authority to withhold other state aid, and create a state fiscal overseer to monitor spending during interventions.
House Bill 5389, introduced at the request of the city of Providence, would change how the state's Crowley Act calculates a host community's required local contribution during a school takeover, remove the education commissioner's broad authority to withhold other state aid, and create a role for a state-appointed fiscal overseer to monitor takeover spending.
Rep. Slater, the bill sponsor, told the House Finance Committee that the measure "would change the funding calculation and commission's withholding power" and would also "call for the state to appoint a fiscal overseer ... to ensure that no municipality has to go through what Providence did last fall." He testified that the existing maintenance-of-effort rule under the Crowley Act scales a…
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