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Senate edits keep House framework but add reporting deadlines and contingencies for a new foundation funding formula
Summary
Senate Education largely preserved the House’s structure for cooperative service areas (Seesaws) and study committees while adding reporting requirements, altering some membership and mapping choices, and keeping a new House contingency that would block a shift to the proposed foundation formula unless several legislative fixes (CTE, sparsity measures, regional cost weights) are enacted.
The Finance committee reviewed the most recent Senate Education draft of the education bill (draft 9‑55), which keeps much of the House construct for cooperative service areas ("seesaws") and study committees but adds reporting deadlines and policy contingencies tied to the proposed foundation funding formula.
A committee presenter said the Senate preserved the House's overall map approach and facilitator model for study committees while making targeted changes to membership and administrative details; the presenter added that the Senate deleted a House provision in the school-construction section that would have allowed paying off existing local debt.
Why it matters: the bill is tied to a broader shift to a statewide foundation formula. The presenter told members that the legislation contains multiple contingencies the legislature must meet before the foundation formula can take effect, including…
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