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Senate panel approves ESA funding overhaul requiring three-year district plans and new reporting
Summary
The committee approved SB101 to rewrite ESA (Enhanced Student Achievement) categorical funding rules, require districts to submit three-year plans beginning July 2022, establish broad evidence-based expenditure categories, and set annual ADE reporting beginning October 2023; senators questioned transfer rules and 'use-it-or-lose-it' penalties.
The Senate Education Committee voted to advance SB101, a bill that restructures ESA (Enhanced Student Achievement) categorical funding and requires districts to prepare three-year plans for how they will allocate those funds beginning in July 2022. Dr. Pfeiffer of the Department of Education described categories intended to replace an open list of allowable expenditures and emphasized multi-year planning, accountability and annual reporting by ADE beginning October 2023.
Under the proposal,…
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