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Committee approves RS 32-458 to restore staffing flexibility for districts

2372048 · February 20, 2025
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Summary

Representative Sonia Galaviz brought RS 32-458 to the committee to remove a statutory provision that reduced districts' staff-allowance flexibility; the committee voted to introduce the request and the sponsor said reporting and allocation processes would remain unchanged.

Representative Sonia Galaviz presented RS 32-458 as a clean-up to statutory language governing staff allowance, seeking to restore a district-level flexibility that had been reduced in 2016.

Galaviz said the current law had allowed districts a flexibility equal to 9.5 percent fewer positions than the allocated full-time equivalent (FTE) and that a 2016 change began reducing that flexibility by 1 percentage point for districts whose class sizes exceeded statewide averages for districts of similar…

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