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Education secretary urges planning before major school-construction spending tied to estate tax
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Secretary of Education Zoe Saunders told Ways & Means the governor’s proposal to use estate-tax revenue for school construction requires first determining district configuration and finalizing the foundation funding formula; she said staff, master-planning grants and clear funding are needed before major capital investments.
Secretary of Education Zoe Saunders told the Ways & Means Committee that while the governor has proposed reallocating estate-tax revenue toward school construction aid, the state must follow an "order of operations" before making large capital commitments.
Saunders said the agency’s priority is to understand the future configuration of districts and to finalize the foundation funding formula so that investments in buildings align with long-term enrollment and operational plans. "We have to understand first the future configuration of our system in terms of the larger…
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