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| Updated: Jan. 19, 2021, 3:33 p.m.
Usually, the biggest education battle during the legislative session is over the budget will lawmakers boost funding and by how much? That part of the process was (mostly) taken off the table last month when leaders voted to pump $400 million of new education funding into the base budget at the start of the 2021 session.
But the education community and lawmakers have a shifting landscape to navigate, with a new governor for the first time in more than a decade and schools struggling with the mammoth task of educating students during a pandemic. Plus a number of new faces on Capitol Hill will help shape education policy for the next year and beyond.