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Senate Education Committee finalizes adequacy draft, keeps partnership program at $90 million
Summary
In a virtual session, the Senate Education Committee voted to finalize an adequacy draft that retains the partnership program funding at $90,000,000 while leaving student growth and declining-enrollment funding unset in the matrix; the draft will be sent to chamber leaders and the governor.
The Senate Education Committee met virtually and voted to finalize an adequacy draft that keeps the partnership program funding level unchanged at $90,000,000 and leaves student growth and declining-enrollment funding unset in the matrix.
An unidentified committee member who conducted the meeting said, "So all we have to do basically is to okay this, and it can go on and be sent out to the pro tem and the speaker and then eventually to the governor." The draft incorporates recommendations, a funding matrix and supplemental materials the panel had circulated two weeks earlier.
Representative Springer said she had not yet read the entire report and asked why the partnership program had no new recommendations. "What was the reasoning behind why there were no recommendations regarding the partnership program?" she asked. A committee participant replied that the partnership recommendation is unchanged from the previous version and that the program amount is $90,000,000.
Representative Beck asked for clarity about student growth funding and declining-enrollment funding. The committee member responding said, "We do not have anything on growth funding... That's something that we will discuss later," and confirmed that declining-enrollment funding is also not set in the matrix. The member added that isolated funding remains the same as in the prior biennium.
The panel considered procedural matters and then moved to formal action. A motion to accept the draft as final was made by Deanne (first name only provided) and seconded by Representative Brian Evans. After no additional discussion, members indicated approval by voice vote; multiple participants said "aye" and the motion carried.
The committee confirmed there is no meeting tomorrow and noted a meeting is tentatively scheduled in November for consultants to present the final report for the next biennium; a December meeting is still to be determined. The committee also confirmed a quorum during the session before adjourning.
The finalized draft will be forwarded to chamber leadership and the governor as the committee's recommended adequacy report for the next biennium.
