House Education - 2026-02-18 - 9:15AM

House Education Committee · February 18, 2026

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Opening and purpose

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Committee opened the House Education meeting and introduced the topic: follow-up discussion on CESA/BOCES/CSA designs. Chair (unnamed in transcript) said the committee invited Erin McGuire and Chris Benway to provide details on guardrails for proposed cooperative service entities.

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House Education heard testimony from Vermont special education leaders on cooperative service agencies (CSAs). Witnesses urged district-led, voluntary CSAs with guardrails to protect inclusion, clarified funding and staffing implications, and requested a maintenance-of-effort bill to protect local funding.

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