With 18 days remaining in the 2001 legislative session, committees are meeting this weekend in an effort to move more legislation. School board members are in town Sunday through Tuesday of next week for the annual April AASB Legislative Fly-In. Lawmakers are feeling the pressure to increase school funding.
People claim they're putting more money into education.
But that is a trick. Whether that comes through the formula or outside the formula remains to be seen, said Rep. Guess. Rep. Davies said he thought there would also be a tobacco securitization package to address school construction. The Republican-led Majority will need to negotiate with Democrats to access the Constitutional Budget Reserve in order to fully fund the state's operating budget. Rep. Bunde, author of the House version of SB 133, the graduation exam bill, is blocking attempts to replace the House language addressing Special Education provisions with the Senate's language.