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Committee approves introduction of RS 32,458 to restore staffing flexibility for districts
Summary
Representative Sonia Galaviz presented RS 32,458 to remove a statutory provision that reduced districts’ staff‑allowance flexibility. Lawmakers discussed reporting and divisors used to compute class‑size averages; the committee voted to introduce the RS and it will be printed for further consideration.
Representative Sonia Galaviz (District 16) asked the committee to print RS 32,458, a cleanup bill that would remove a provision added in 2016 that gradually reduced districts’ previously allowed staff‑allowance flexibility.
Galaviz said the 2016 change imposed a permanent one‑way reduction of flexibility — nicknamed “use it or lose it” — that penalizes some districts, particularly smaller ones, by narrowing how they may allocate positions. She told the…
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