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Committee introduces RS32642 to change school transportation funding and reimbursements
Summary
Representative Dan Garner presented RS32642 to revise transportation funding formulas, create 'authorized transportation districts,' exclude virtual students from certain reimbursements and allow alternative vehicle reimbursements; the committee voted to introduce the measure.
Representative Dan Garner, sponsor of RS32642, told the House Committee on Education that the draft reorganizes transportation funding and district definitions and would create "authorized transportation districts" to replace previous terminology.
Garner said the RS removes a previously misunderstood "block grant" concept from public confusion in its earlier form and clarifies reimbursement for virtual students and alternative transportation arrangements. "We were getting a lot of grief about people not understanding the block grant," Garner said, noting the draft also excludes virtual students from bus-related reimbursements so virtual schools will not be…
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