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Bill would create seven Cooperative Educational Service Areas and fund facilitators and study‑committees
Summary
Draft creates seven Cooperative Educational Service Areas (CISAs), makes them eligible for $15,000 startup grants, funds eight facilitators via a $442,000 grant to the Vermont Learning Collaborative, and authorizes up to $10,000 reimbursement grants for 21 union‑district study committees and $50,000 executive‑director grants for six CISAs.
Committee counsel described a suite of governance and grant provisions in Draft 3.1 intended to reshape local education service delivery and to help school districts explore union school district formation.
The bill replaces statutory references to 'boards of cooperative education services' (BOCES) with 'Cooperative Educational Service Areas (CISAs),' creates seven CISAs in statute, and would make them eligible for startup grants of $15,000 each. Counsel said the startup grant program would use $60,000 from previously appropriated education fund dollars and a supplemental $30,000 general‑fund appropriation for a…
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