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Education committee debates ECS foundation increase and special‑education seed‑grant change; amendment to limit contractors fails
Summary
The committee advanced Senate and House proposals to raise the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) foundation and to amend special‑education funding rules. A motion to preserve a restriction preventing the SEED grant from paying third‑party contractors failed 15–18 after lengthy debate about district flexibility and double‑dipping.
Senators and representatives on the joint education committee discussed competing bills to boost state school funding and to adjust special‑education financing, and they voted down an amendment that would have preserved a restriction on SEED grant contracting.
The session opened with a proposal to gradually increase the ECS foundation amount by $1,000 annually for four years and then index it to inflation, an approach the bill proponent called necessary to restore funding that “we haven't raised in 10 years” and to ensure “every school district will benefit.” (Senator McCrory, proponent.)
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