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Appropriations committee reviews competing House and Senate changes to K-12 education funding
Summary
Committee members reviewed House and Senate modifications to an education funding package that includes school safety grants, mentor teacher funding, special education aid and other K-12 line items; members flagged differing House and Senate language and specific dollar amounts for 2025–2027.
The Committee on Appropriations reviewed competing House and Senate positions on a multi-part education package that included school safety grants, mentor-teacher funding, career and technical education (CTE) transportation and special education aid.
Committee members described the House offer as adding a one-time $5 million State General Fund (SGF) appropriation for a “safe and secure firearms detection” program restricted to public school buildings for two years, and indicated the funding was intended for 2026. The Senate position included different deletions and reallocations for related school-safety and professional-development accounts.
The committee spent the most time on safe-and-secure grants, where members noted multiple alternate positions: the House modification moved $5 million from a CBIU increase into one-time funding for public schools with a…
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