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Committee sends charter school funding bill to Senate after debate over $30M fiscal note
Summary
S.B. 186 would fund a one-time charter school service center and launch a study of funding disparities; testimony from charter leaders and the State Charter School Board supported the bill, while some senators questioned the fiscal assumptions. The committee recommended the bill 4–1.
Sen. Baldry and proponents introduced S.B. 186, which requests a one-time appropriation (sponsor asked for $1,500,000) to establish a charter school service center modeled after existing regional service agencies and to commission a study of long-term funding equity between charter schools and similarly sized districts. Proponents said charter schools have faced a large cumulative funding disparity and that a centralized service center would help smaller charters access shared administrative, IT and special-services…
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