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Senate education panel debates path forward after task force fails to deliver maps
Summary
Senate Education Committee members said the redistricting task force did not deliver usable maps and split over whether to dig into the task force's work, incentivize voluntary district consolidation, or pursue staged changes that preserve education quality.
A Senate Education Committee member said the committee must decide how to proceed after the state's redistricting task force "did not provide maps," setting off a debate over whether to re-run mapping work or analyze why the task force found maps infeasible.
Members spoke on a range of options at the Jan. 27 meeting, with some urging the committee to dig into the task force's research and identify the specific barriers that prevented a ready map, and others warning against spending committee time drawing boundary lines for towns committee members have not visited.
Why it matters: The committee must balance two goals—containing future increases in education property tax rates…
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