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Board adopts legislative priorities, urging workforce-development fixes and caution on EV-bus timelines
Summary
Trustees approved the district's 2026 legislative priorities package calling for stable school-aid funding, increased CTE staffing aid, workforce-development measures (including continued retiree-hire waivers) and delays or flexibility on zero-emissions bus implementation for rural districts.
The Granville Central School District board approved its annual legislative-priorities resolution, highlighting school-aid funding, Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffing support, workforce-development pathways for teacher certification, and caution about statewide zero-emissions bus timelines.
A member of the advocacy committee (S4) presented four priority areas: 1) support for foundation and school aid and stable reimbursement models for transportation and textbooks; 2) increasing CTE staffing aid (the committee recommended raising the per-CTE-staff allocation from $30,000 to $60,000); 3) preserving or extending post-COVID retiree-hire waivers and expediting licensure pathways to address teacher shortages; and 4) urging the state to slow mandatory zero-emissions bus schedules for rural districts because of range, special-run mileage and charging-infrastructure challenges.
S4 told trustees the district currently has nine retirees working in teaching roles; removing the waiver could cause staffing shortfalls. "If you pull that nine people out of our teaching staff next year and this waiver were to go away... I do not know if you will have enough staff to open for next year," S4 said.
Board members unanimously adopted the legislative-priorities resolution. Trustees asked staff to provide materials constituents can use to contact state legislators, and to clarify the board's requests about graduation-pathway guidance and funding needs for implementing local graduation measures.
What happens next: the district will forward the priorities to regional legislators, prepare constituent-facing summaries, and track state budget and rulemaking timelines related to CTE aid, teacher licensure and bus electrification.
