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Committee reviews sweeping governance changes in H.9.55: "seesaw" membership, small-school tests and school-construction tradeoffs
Summary
Committee examined a broad amendment package to H.9.55 that would create statutory "seesaw" membership rules, a process for supervisory-union membership adjustments, a new average-grade-size test for small-school grants, and multiple school-construction and legacy-debt changes; the Agency of Education flagged concerns about advisory-council scope and membership balance.
The committee spent the bulk of the session on a comprehensive rewrite and set of instances of amendment to H.9.55, a large education bill that would change how supervisory unions, regional groupings and certain consolidated structures are formed and governed.
Key proposed changes: the draft would create a new statutory chapter to define "seesaw" membership and create a process by which a supervisory-union (SU) board or petition of voters (aggregate 5% threshold) could propose an adjustment to the SU's assigned seesaw membership. The proposal sets public-hearing timelines, requires Australian-ballot voting and certification to the Secretary of State, and asks for advisory votes from affected SU boards so the legislature would receive local input before acting.
The draft also shifts the small-school…
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