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Senate fast-tracks House Bill 4 to reduce special-education paperwork and update funding weights
Summary
Under suspension of the rules the Senate read and passed House Bill 4 (special education amendments) citing reduced paperwork burdens for special education teachers and updated weighting factors; the motion passed on a roll-call vote of 27-0 with two absent.
The Senate read House Bill 4 (Special Education Amendments, Representative Franson) and, under suspension of the rules, voted to consider it for second and third reading and final passage.
A committee member explained that House amendments removed a growth-factor provision and parts of the earlier "tier system." The bill updates the funding-weighting approach for…
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