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Agency of Education seeks $700,000 reappropriation to expand literacy coaching under Act 139
Summary
The Agency of Education asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to revert and reappropriate $700,000 in general funds—previously federal ARPA/SFRF and modified by administrative action—to scale the Read Vermont Literacy Institute and statewide screeners required by Act 139.
The Agency of Education asked the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 6 to revert and reappropriate $700,000 in existing general funds so the state can resume and scale a literacy coaching initiative required by Act 139.
Jill Briggs Campbell, deputy secretary of education and chief of operations, told the committee the funds are not new money but a replacement for federal ESSER/GEER resources that the agency can no longer use. "The advantage of having it in the BAA is that it gives us more time to plan," Campbell said, describing the request as a reappropriation of dollars that were previously converted from federal ARPA/SFRF into general fund through administrative action.
The agency says approximately $1.4 million of…
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