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Education officials tell Senate House budget amendments could derail literacy and transformation work
Summary
State education leaders told the Senate Appropriations Committee that provisions in the House budget — including omission of a $700,000 literacy reversion and sharp reductions to transformation funding — would hamper the agency’s ability to implement statewide literacy improvements and transformation activities in FY27.
For the record, Zoe Saunders, Secretary of Education, told the Senate Appropriations Committee on March 27 that several amendments in the House budget would undermine the agency’s ability to lead an ongoing education transformation and to carry out planned literacy supports.
Saunders said the House draft omits a requested $700,000 reappropriation tied to literacy work and takes previously approved transformation dollars out of the agency’s control. "Absent those funds, I just want to be clear about the risk: we will not be able to carry out the really critical work that the agency has been tasked to do to support teachers," Saunders said.
The omission is not new money, Saunders and Deputy Secretary Jill…
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