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Committee hears omnibus education bill with data-science pathway, four‑day week criteria and teacher-pay fixes
Summary
Representative Robert Behning presented House Bill 12-66, a large agency omnibus bill directing a new data science pathway, adding criteria for four-day school-week applications, restoring certain grant uses (TAG) to cover FICA and retirement, expanding teacher residency eligibility, and clarifying literacy salary differentiation. Stakeholders offered mixed reactions on specific sections.
Representative Robert Behning summarized House Bill 12-66 to the Senate Education Committee as an omnibus “agency bill” containing many technical and substantive sections, including a requirement that the secretary of education develop a new data science pathway to prepare students for high-demand technology careers and a directive to establish a process to support persistently underperforming schools by 12/01/2026.
Behning walked the committee through other provisions: aligning CTE references…
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