Staff walks senators through H.955 plan to convert BOCES into seven statutory 'Seesaws' and fund study committees
Committee staff gave a detailed, line‑by‑line overview of H.955, explaining provisions that would statutorily create seven cooperative educational service areas ('Seesaws'), require study committees and facilitators for potential unified union school districts, set timelines through 2029, and specify appropriations (startup grants, facilitator contracts, reimbursements and other seed funding).
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Committee staffers walked the Senate Education Committee through H.955, the lengthy house education report that would recast the existing BOCES framework into statutorily required cooperative educational service areas — repeatedly labeled in testimony as 'Seesaws.' The presentation covered definitions, membership, governance, required services, the role of the Vermont Learning Collaborative, mandated facilitators, study committee groupings, deadlines and appropriations.
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