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House Education hears task force case for mandatory regional shared'service areas to shore up special education and CTE
Summary
A task'force presenter urged the House Education committee to require regional collaborative education service areas (CSAs, formerly called BOCES), arguing they can lower costs and expand specialist access while warning that careful implementation and oversight are essential.
Jaye Badams, who presented portions of the district redistricting task force report, told the House Education committee on Jan. 20 that Vermont should consider mandatory regional collaborative education service areas (CSAs) to improve access to specialists, reduce duplicative costs and support career and technical education.
Badams said the proposal is intended to provide shared infrastructure for high'cost, low'frequency services such as special education compliance, purchasing, transportation contracting, information technology and professional development. "We are making decisions that affect other people's children, and that's the ultimate public trust," she said as she framed the proposal's stakes.
The task force presentation stressed that CSAs are not intended to replace local governance. "It is not a new layer of governance because it's not a governance structure," Badams said, adding…
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