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House backs BOCES bill to let supervisory unions form shared-service collaboratives; $70,000 startup appropriation moved to Education Fund
Summary
H630 would enable Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) that allow supervisory unions to share services (limited to seven statewide); Ways & Means shifted a $70,000 startup appropriation to the Education Fund and the House ordered third reading after committee support.
The House debated H630, a strike-all bill to establish Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in Vermont and to permit supervisory unions to enter written agreements to provide shared services at scale.
Representative Buss (member from Woodstock) introduced the proposal, describing BOCES as a flexible collaborative that could provide bulk purchasing, shared special-education placements, federal grant-writing capacity and fee-for-service professional…
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