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• In Georgia, they increased funds for an artificial intelligence literacy program.
• funds are, you know, things that are not kind of shovel-ready projects, but things like digital literacy
• Having good data governance policies and having literacy—understanding what data is, how it’s to be used
• That's where we get a little bit more methodical, get a little bit more detailed, making sure we're really
• That's where we get a little bit more methodical, get a little bit more detailed, making sure we're really

Keywords: 908, all

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• If we prohibit this kind of exclusive use of certain social media, what kind of methods do you suggest
• that is not necessarily race-based, but how are we making sure the programs that we're doing in literacy
• English learners with disabilities and reframe reclassification as a milestone on the pathway to bi-literacy
• I will be supporting this measure because I believe the method of narrowing the achievement gap will
• That would be looking at literacy rates for our students.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• On line 28, the Senate accepts the House offer to maintain no funding for the College Financing Literacy
• On line 28, the Senate accepts the House offer to maintain no funding for the College Financing Literacy
• On line 28, the Senate accepts the House offer to maintain no funding for the College Financing Literacy
• On line 28, the Senate accepts the House offer to maintain no funding for the College Financing Literacy
• College Financing Literacy College Financing Literacy Act.<00:03:50.319> On<00:03:50.560> line

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Essentially, the three methods in which a community owner can raise base rents will continue to be law
• The three methods in which a community owner can raise base rents will continue to be law.
• there's a 76% increase in learning outcomes with virtual reality or extended reality versus traditional methods
• That our students are struggling, and I am deeply concerned about our state's literacy and math scores
• think we all recognize that our students are struggling, and I am deeply concerned about our state's literacy

Summary: The House convened with quorum, offered prayers and moments of silence for community members who had recently died, and recognized several guests and family members in the chamber. After routine communications and passage of consent calendar 29, the chamber took up a series of measures on the main and colored agendas, with several bills and resolutions passing by voice vote or roll call. Among the measures approved were House Concurrent Resolution 157, which as amended requested a State Lottery report on options to support traditional lottery retailers; Senate Bill 53 on the Delaware Farm to Community Program; Senate Bill 307 on PSC authority for Lifeline telecommunications carriers; Senate Bill 339 clarifying health directive forms in mental health facilities; Senate Bill 235 on manufactured home community rent increases; Senate Bill 325, as amended, updating fire prevention and volunteer fire/EMS background check rules; Senate Bill 309 on inmate work and discharge of incarceration-related balances; Senate Bill 324 on deadly weapons and constable agency representatives; Senate Bill 293 on youth camp child care licensing; Senate Bill 94 on respiratory care practitioners and ECMO medication delivery; and Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100, proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right to marry regardless of race or gender while preserving religious freedom. House Bill 188, changing Delaware primary elections to allow unaffiliated voters to choose a party primary, also passed after debate. Two measures drew extended discussion and amendments. Senate Bill 233, requiring snow and ice to be removed from vehicles, was tabled once, then later amended and passed after debate over whether the law was workable for truck drivers and other vehicle operators; a proposed truck-related exemption amendment failed. House Substitute 1 for House Bill 404, creating a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools, passed after testimony from the Department of Education emphasizing guardrails, privacy, and educator oversight, alongside concerns from members about data, bias, and long-term effects. Several items were tabled or reconsidered during the session, and the House adjourned after completing the day’s business.

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• The one in VPK we call FAST Early Literacy, and it's administered, again, to monitor achievement and
• The one in VPK we call FAST Early Literacy, and it's administered to monitor achievement and learning
• It's monitoring progress in our emergent literacy and early math skills.
• We also then have a vice chancellor who focuses on literacy achievement.
• So we work really hard and really collaborate with Chancellor Miller's teams on literacy.

Summary: The Pre-K through 12 Budget Subcommittee held its first interim meeting, took roll, and established a quorum. Members introduced themselves, many noting backgrounds in education, school boards, local government, or parenting, and Chair Jenna Persons-Mulicka outlined the committee’s goal of building the fiscal year 2025-26 Pre-K-12 budget. She also reviewed the fiscal year 2024-25 education budget, noting that the Pre-K-12 portion totals about $21 billion, with the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) as the largest driver, along with major funding for VPK, school readiness, and school recognition. She explained that federal COVID relief funds have ended and that recent school choice legislation has affected budget structure. Commissioner Manny Diaz and department leaders then gave overviews of their divisions. Diaz highlighted Florida’s education rankings, record graduation rate, progress monitoring, expanded school choice participation, charter school growth, and teacher salary investments, while emphasizing a focus on literacy, math, and early learning. Carrie Miller described the Division of Early Learning’s school readiness and VPK programs, their funding, eligibility, accountability systems, and the importance of kindergarten readiness. Paul Burns outlined the Division of Public Schools’ work on educator quality, literacy, standards, certification, family outreach, federal programs, and school improvement. Suzanne Pridgen reviewed finance and operations functions, including budget management, FEFP calculations, grants, procurement, transportation, and emergency management. Adam Emerson described parental choice programs, including scholarships, charter schools, schools of hope, virtual education, and home education. Darren Norris detailed the Office of Safe Schools’ responsibilities for risk assessments, compliance inspections, threat management, grants, and training created after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas tragedy. Members asked questions about several issues, including whether the Safe Schools office recommends changes to the school safety grant distribution formula, whether early learning eligibility should shift from federal poverty level to state median income, how scholarship payments are verified to avoid funding students who return to public school, and whether daily attendance systems could improve funding accuracy. Other questions addressed hurricane-related survey disruptions, VPK provider reimbursement rates and instructional hours, teacher salary increases, school start time costs, and how voucher schools handle IEP accommodations. Department officials generally said some issues remain under review, supported moving school readiness eligibility to SMI, noted that scholarship and enrollment data are cross-checked and adjusted when needed, and said progress monitoring now helps schools support mobile students. On school safety, officials said exemptions are allowed in statute for some items but not for classroom doors, and that district-specific conditions matter. No votes were taken and no formal actions were reported beyond receiving presentations and discussion.

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• This is a really, um, I'm so passionate about literacy.
• This is a really, um, I'm so passionate about literacy.
• This is a really, I'm so passionate about literacy.
• <01:09:35.759> 50%<01:09:36.319> of literacy.
• And we see what we get. 50% of literacy.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• I'm representing the Dyslexia Literacy Coalition today, and the Dyslexia Literacy Coalition is made up
• c> Rachel berer I'm representing the Rachel berer I'm representing the dyslexia<00:03:06.280> literacy
• <00:03:06.920> Coalition<00:03:07.920> today<00:03:08.920> and dyslexia literacy
• > literacy<00:03:10.720> Coalition<00:03:11.239> is<00:03:11.400> made the
• dyslexia literacy Coalition is made the dyslexia literacy Coalition is made up<00:03:11.879> of

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• <00:35:56.960> and financial and digital literacy and financial and digital literacy and behind
• assistance, financial literacy assistance, financial literacy education,<00:48:22.160> childcare
• class but it's where financial literacy class but it's where we<00:51:19.200> can<00:51:19.359
• I also participated in PSP's Families for Finance program, where I took financial literacy courses and
• courses and saved $1,700 which literacy courses and saved $1,700 which PSP<00:53:46.160> matched.

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• It centers student inquiry, emphasizing disciplinary literacy.
• It centers student inquiry, emphasizing disciplinary literacy, K through 8 fully interdisciplinary, no
• This seems, as I said, a pretty massive shift, especially when it looks at disciplinary literacy and
• <01:07:51.119> and<01:07:52.079> um looks at disciplinary literacy and um looks at
• disciplinary literacy and um critical<01:07:52.640> thinking<01:07:53.119> making<01:07

Bills: HF3489, HF3550

Keywords: grooming, child protection, student safety, sexual exploitation, educator licensing, teacher discipline, mandatory reporting, mandated reporter training, school misconduct, predatory offender, child abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, child sexual abuse material, child pornography, position of authority, school employee, school administrator, license revocation, license suspension

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• Our students are not required to have personal financial literacy instruction besides what is merely
• the current one-half credit. and economics with a one-half credit in personal financial literacy.
• to be taken by students to satisfy the personal financial literacy credit.
• HB 27, relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.
• House Bill 27, relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public

Bills: SB801, SB867, SB2717, SB2919, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB111, HB112, HB121, HB126, HB146, HB186, HB223, HB229, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB521, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1052, HB1056, HB1105, HB1106, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1306, HB1403, HB1449, HB1506, HB1661, HB1690, HB1871, HB1960, HB2017, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2348, HB2407, HB2512, HB2820, HB2844, HB2853, HB2854, HB2885, HB3000, HB3005, HB3053, HB3057, HB3181, HB3333, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3516, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3848, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4158, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4690, HB4748, HB4749, HB4795, HB4848, HB5093, HB5115, HB5129, HB5138, HB5294, HB5616, HB5629, HB5646, HB5661, HB5672, HB5674, HB5699, HCR40, SJR5, SJR27, SJR59, SB4, SB6, SB8, SB9, SB10, SB12, SB22, SB23, SB25, SB27, SB34, SB36, SB37, SB38, SB40, SB57, SB140, SB261, SB293, SB441, SB447, SB467, SB512, SB650, SB777, SB785, SB924, SB1188, SB1281, SB1318, SB1333, SB1398, SB1448, SB1566, SB1579, SB1621, SB1723, SB1838, SB1862, SB2167, SB2405, SB2406, SB2407, SB2878, SB3059, SB3070, SB1, SB17, SB21, SB260, SB379, SB509, SB1198, SB1405, SB1506, SB1637, SB1833, SB2155, SB2308, SB2601, SB2778, HB300, HB2011, HB2525, HB5246, SJR36, SJR50, SJR63, SCR12, SCR39, SB2023, SB62, SB666, SB847, SB284, SB854, SB810, SB1505, SB583, SB507, SB1434, SB1772, SB2016, SB1122, SB731, SB397, SB508, SB1436, SB287, SB1882, SB393, SB1791, SB209, SB2429, SB1085, SB1975, SB2717, SB1262, SB636, SB2056, SB884, SB1200, SB1845, SB2458, SB801, SB3014, SB3013, SB758, SB2797, SB2076, SB2876, SB1640, SB1449, SB1181, SB1234, SB2926, SB2841, SB1528, SB1854, SB317, SB1250, SB2082, SB1237, SB2819, SB629, SB2608, SB1602, SB2009, SB867, SB640, SB1698, SB2680, SB913, SB1071, SB1086, SB1087, SB1483, SB1444, SB1553, SB1556, SB1703, SB2133, SB2297, SB2298, SB2622, SB2955, SB2334, SB1367, SB2044, SB2363, SB2565, SB1888, SB3036, SB3057, SB3043, SB3063, SB3035, SB203, SB2688, SB2522, SB2459, SB2655, SB2251, SB1884, SB2928, SB2566, SB2549, SB2553, SB2919, SB1944, SB1232, SB1798, SB2603, SB2607, SB2683, SB1319, SB3045, SB3071, HJR7, HB5115, HB3053, HB1403, HB223, HB748, HB5652, HB3395, HB180, HB1306, HB322, HB126, HB5650, HB4894, HB1629, HB5698, HB3171, HB2694, HB5664, HB4690, HB4464, HB3623, HB2520, HB2213, HB252, HB146, HB5596, HB3619, HB5320, HB5651, HB5670, HB5665, HB5437, HB5679, HB5699, HB5661, HB5662, HB5654, HB5672, HB5656, HB3812, HB3057, HB2035, HB721, HB346, HB2512, HB5695, HB5694, HB5674, HB3185, HB2348, HB1871, HB1135, HB101, HB5666, HB5677, HB5682, HB5658, HB4144, HB3642, HB3815, HB2686, HB2012, HB1960, HB227, HB654, HB1690, HB2128, HB4158, HB4630, HB1523, HB2078, HB1973, HB3333, HB3697, HB3546, HB3225, HB3181, HB2820, HB1506, HB1234, HB640, HB521, HB229, HB186, HB119, HB4795, HB4466, HB3749, HB1106, HB4, HB4170, HB3909, HB4081, HB4145, HB4157, HB4285, HB4463, HB4995, HB5138, HB5624, HB1449, HB2598, HB3629, HB4361, HB824, HB1868, HB4848, HB2243, HB40, HB117, HB3686, HB500, HB3793, HB112, HB104, HB1056, HB42, HB3000, HB100, HB2240, HB718, HB27, HB4904, HB4202, HB2853, HB5129, HB5093, HB4765, HB4748, HB4559, HB4350, HB4214, HB3388, HB3112, HB5196, HB4211, HB3516, HB3092, HB4233, HB4687, HB705, HB1094, HB2037, HB3005, HB3848, HB1105, HB121, HB3372, HB367, HB783, HB3336, HB3441, HB4449, HB5616, HB2407, HB2854, HB3425, HB5294, HB1178, HB4623, HB14, HB3963, HB1211, HB5646, HB5629, HB3783, HB4236, HB46, HB4638, HB1052, HB4070, HB5509, HB5435, HB4134, HB3923, HB3520, HB3320, HB2517, HB2488, HB5663, HB2731, HB3073, HB2655, HB2399, HB541, HB4099, HB111, HB1532, HB3483, HB2963, HB4580, HB3748, HB713, HB632, HB426, HB4730, HB127, HB5690, HB5689, HB5655, HB3385, HB2757, HB4359, HB5381, HB20, HB123, HB549, HB5606, HB2217, HB2594, HB796, HB150, HB1057, HCR141, HCR40, HCR59, HCR76, HCR81, HCR46, HCR111, HCR83, HCR84, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB126, HB150, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1105, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1506, HB1690, HB1871, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2407, HB2512, HB2853, HB2854, HB3000, HB3057, HB3181, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4748, HB4795, HB5093, HB5129, HB5616, HB5629, HB5699, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB5138, SR583, SCR52, HB223, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB1403, HB3053, HB5115, HB5138

Keywords: SB 801, birth certificate, birth record, certified copy, homeless, homelessness, unhoused, vital records, state registrar, local registrar, county clerk, fee waiver, identity documents, ID access, housing insecurity, shelter, transitional housing, Health and Safety Code, HHSC, Health and Human Services Commission

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• Literacy is one of those bipartisan issues that got frustratingly partisan last time.
• I will tell you House members, literacy.
• I mean, investing in literacy, helping our kids learn how to read. That's foundational.
• I see literacy much like roads and bridges.
• I see literacy much like roads and bridges.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• School students in the state with financial literacy, but it should not matter what school district you
• So when I say things to fix, financial literacy should be a graduation requirement.
• Then they would be able to utilize it after the age of 18, after a financial literacy component, and
• First of all, I appreciate the idea of financial literacy. I think that's a great idea.
• We make sure that they're either doing financial literacy or they're doing women empowerment, whatever

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• serve as gathering spaces for people of all ages, as well as provide access to information, early literacy
• serve as gathering spaces for people of all ages, as well as provide access to information, early literacy
• the requests out there, and we have to have some way of rationing it, and I think the caps are one method
• the<00:32:35.560> caps<00:32:35.920> are<00:32:36.160> one<00:32:36.400> method
• the caps are one method to do that. the caps are one method to do that.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• HB 1891 is a literacy bill, is a mental health bill, and it is an equity bill.
• HB 1891 is a literacy bill, is a mental health bill, and it is an equity bill.
• often begins with early literacy often begins with early literacy failure. failure. failure.
• HB 1891 is a structured literacy.
• two three years ago, and the literacy two three years ago, and the literacy levers levers levers

Bills: HB1890, HB1888, HB1676

Keywords: teacher pay, teacher salaries, salary step increase, annual increment, longevity step, public school teachers, public charter school teachers, collective bargaining, Hawaii Department of Education, teacher retention, teacher recruitment, cost of living, educator compensation, public employee bargaining, appropriation, salary schedule, school staffing, teacher shortage, HB1888, Hawaii

Summary: The committees heard three measures, beginning with HB 1890 HD3, which would provide automatic step increases and a COVID-era retention bonus for teachers. Supporters included HSTA, the Democratic Party’s Education Caucus, and a student who said higher pay and predictable salary growth would help retain teachers in Hawaii. The Department of Education supported the intent but asked that the bill be expanded to cover all department employees. The Attorney General’s office said the draft needed clarification to avoid conflict with Chapter 89 and to make clear any funding was subject to legislative appropriation. The Office of the Public Defender and B&F testified in opposition, and committee members questioned whether the step increases were already in the current contract and whether the bill was needed. HSTA said the current contract includes automatic step increases subject to funding, but argued the bill was still needed because funding is not guaranteed and the measure would codify the policy. HSTA also said the COVID bonus would apply only to active teachers who worked during the pandemic and estimated the total cost at roughly $150 million to $200 million over four years. No vote was taken in the portion provided. The committee then took up HB 1888 HD3, which would require DOE and charter schools to report harassment incidents and strengthen penalties for harassment of educational workers from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor. DOE supported the bill and suggested narrowing language about assisting workers with temporary restraining orders, saying that function would be better handled through the Attorney General’s pilot program. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing the harassment language was overly broad, vague, and potentially unconstitutional, and that existing assault and terroristic threatening statutes already protect educational workers. HSTA, the State Commission on the Status of Women, and several individual testifiers supported the measure, describing increased intimidation and harassment of teachers and other school staff, especially since COVID. The Special Education Advisory Council opposed the bill’s language on “disrupting and interfering” with school functions, saying it could chill parents of students with IEPs from advocating for their children. Testimony was split, with the chair noting 20 in support and 16 in opposition in the portion shown. A final witness, Michelle Pestana, testified in opposition based on her family’s experience with special education services, describing alleged seclusion and restraint of her daughter and expressing concern that DOE testimony in prior hearings had targeted special education parents. Her remarks were cut off as time expired. The transcript ends before any committee action or vote on HB 1888 was taken.

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• , collaboration, and direct interaction with educators—practices we know are essential for early literacy
• Our educators are witnessing in real time a growing crisis in student attention span and literacy development
• important and responsible step toward understanding how screen use impacts learning focus and early literacy
• instructional decisions are driven by evidence, not by trends, and that our students receive the literacy-rich

Bills: SB194, SB200, SB203, SB204, SJR3

Keywords: appropriation, higher education, sports facilities, community college, Luna Community College, KANW, educational radio, rural news, public education, funding, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, cultural heritage, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University

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• Libraries support literacy, educational success, and community well-being.
• So I, we need to be heavily involved in how we decide what the procurement methods are moving forward
• are moving forward and probably methods are moving forward and probably something's<01:09:45.640>
• I think we should dictate it be a method I think we should dictate it because<01:09:57.480> it'll
• <01:09:57.600> be<01:09:57.680> a<01:09:57.760> method because it'll be a method

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• institute, whether it's our region, Literacy Institute.
• When you look at continuing to improve literacy instruction is making sure that all of that instruction
• So it is to me very similar with literacy.
• They collaborate with another team that we have, which is our state regional literacy directors.
• So those schools are double down and focused on literacy. They collaborate with our math team.

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• This approach has the potential to become one of the most environmentally responsible methods of critical
• mineral production... environmentally responsible methods of critical mineral production anywhere in
• developing and connecting underserved communities to affordable services, and delivering digital literacy

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• It continues our commitment to early literacy.
• of the reason they needed the update and part of the reason that we needed to do it through this method
• Holly von Wagner: And part of the reason that we needed to do it through this method, which is not typical

Summary: The Senate reconvened, read committee reports, and assigned House Bill 89 with House Amendment 1 and House Bill 393 with House Amendment 1 to the Senate Finance Committee. It then adopted Consent Calendar 64, which included resolutions recognizing Take Our Children to Work Day, Juneteenth, National Farmers Day, Invisible Disabilities Week, Stonewall Uprising Remembrance Day, National Nonprofit Day, and two property-assessment working group resolutions. The calendar passed by a unanimous roll call, and the chamber heard remarks supporting Juneteenth, Delaware agriculture, invisible disabilities awareness, and the nonprofit sector. The Senate passed the fiscal year 2026 and 2027 revenue estimates in Senate Joint Resolution 16 and Senate Joint Resolution 17, and approved the fiscal year 2027 operating budget in Senate Bill 335 after extended debate on budget growth, recurring costs, health care, education, public safety, retiree obligations, and fiscal restraint. It also passed Senate Bill 336, the one-time supplemental appropriation bill, which includes one-time investments such as a $100 million transition toward a weighted education funding formula, election support, early childhood education, classroom projects, lead remediation, and campaign finance modernization. Several members praised the budget process and staff, while others cautioned against future spending growth. Among policy bills, the Senate passed House Bill 369 to codify the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety, House Bill 268 to increase penalties for assaulting postal workers, House Bill 374 to require workforce reporting on large public works projects, Senate Bill 253 with House Amendment 1 to standardize school bullying parental-notification procedures, Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 342 to modernize the Delaware Motion Picture and Television Development Commission, House Bill 402 to extend Clean Air Act Title V permit fees, and Senate Bill 346 with Senate Amendment 1 to streamline Environmental Appeals Board timelines. The Senate also began consideration of House Bill 293, which would add hate crimes to the Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program, but the transcript cuts off before its vote is shown.

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• Next item is an adjustment to the literacy incentive aid formula.
• It does not modify the eligible uses for literacy incentive aid.
• <00:32:51.200> um the literacy incentive aid formula. um the literacy incentive aid formula
• <00:33:15.600> do uses for literacy incentive aid. do uses for literacy incentive aid. do
• literacy incentive aid subdivisions<00:33:24.960> from<00:33:25.399> statute.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all