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Committee defers sweeping PreK changes, preserves study and intent language
Summary
Committee members said questions at House Education testimony led them to keep the study and intent language on PreK and defer other substantive changes; they emphasized intent language signals a direction toward universal access without creating an unfunded mandate.
The committee chair told members the language the panel sent to the House Committee on Education generated substantial questions during testimony, and that committee leaders decided not to push sweeping changes now. The chair said the committee would preserve the study elements and two pieces of intent language and ask the Education Committee and Ways and Means to carry the matter forward, but would not include other proposed statutory changes that might appear as a…
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