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Wenatchee school board hears legislative update as state budget talks enter final month
Summary
The district’s executive director of business and finance, Sean Fitzgerald, briefed the board on major education bills and the evolving state budget shortfall as the legislature entered the final month of the session.
Sean Fitzgerald, the district’s executive director of business and finance, told the Wenatchee School District School Board on April 1 that the state legislative session was entering its final month and that many proposals important to K–12 funding remained unresolved.
Fitzgerald said revenue forecasts had narrowed recent projections of a state budget shortfall; “recently, in the last couple of weeks, they’ve kinda narrowed it down to a $9,000,000,000 budget shortfall, based on the most recent revenue forecast,” he said, and he warned that “nothing is truly dead and nothing is truly passed and finalized until the budget is approved by both the house and the senate.”
He reviewed bills and topics the district is tracking: a Senate…
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