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MONTPELIER â The state Senate Education Committee hopes to have its version of changing the way Vermontâs K-12 schools count students for budgeting purposes ready by Friday for a committee vote, in order to meet the Legislatureâs crossover deadline.
The bill, currently a strikethrough amendment to S. 13, is a good deal different from its House counterpart, H. 54, which is in the House Education Committee but not on the committeeâs agenda this week.
Unlike S. 54 which proposes applying the per-pupil weights derived by a University of Vermont study at the Legislatureâs direction, S. 13 establishes a task force of six â four lawmakers, the Secretary of Education and the chair of the state Board of Education â to determine how the new weights will be applied. Its report is due by January of next year.