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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Jan 15th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- this amendment just provides for those communities to make these decisions with a little bit more local
- this amendment just provides for those communities to make these decisions with a little bit more local
- control rather than state. these decisions with a little bit more local control rather than a state
- What happens with the federal tax code is you get to deduct any state and local taxes when you calculate
- This bill would add a tool for local municipalities who choose to or have the ability to waive utility
Keywords:
HB1175, small business, residential zoning, land use, zoning reform, neighborhood store, neighborhood cafe, convenience store, minimarket, corner store, mixed-use, local government, city zoning, town zoning, code city, parking regulations, hours of operation, alcohol service, food requirement, commercial use in residential areas
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm Jay Tias, the superintendent of Wilburne Crescent Cooperative School Districts.
- Local effort assistance: property-poor districts struggle to compete with the more affluent areas, and
- Thank you, Superintendent. And we'll move to David. Thank you. Good afternoon.
- In 2025, the program awarded $6.3 million to 96 local food system projects while receiving more than
- We also employ 85 caregivers and support staff who live and work in our local area.
Bills:
HB2289
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
appropriations, budget, fiscal matters, state spending, general fund, supplemental budget, biennial budget, substitute bill, public defense, civil legal aid, courts, judicial branch, homelessness, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, juvenile rehabilitation, youth services, child welfare, foster care
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Jan 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Keywords:
HB1175, small business, residential zoning, land use, zoning reform, neighborhood store, neighborhood cafe, convenience store, minimarket, corner store, mixed-use, local government, city zoning, town zoning, code city, parking regulations, hours of operation, alcohol service, food requirement, commercial use in residential areas
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- Two, the $100 per student cut to local effort assistance.
- Last year, our local program helped over 1,500 victims and children.
- Last year, our local program helped over 1,500 victims and children.
- I'm here today on behalf of the South Island superintendents.
- Please keep local governments in mind.
Bills:
HB2289
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
appropriations, budget, fiscal matters, state spending, general fund, supplemental budget, biennial budget, substitute bill, public defense, civil legal aid, courts, judicial branch, homelessness, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, juvenile rehabilitation, youth services, child welfare, foster care
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House State Government Committee May 7th, 2025
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- One of my superintendents is the head... one of my superintendents is the head deacon at his Baptist
- Mandating things at the state level that should be handled locally.
- And also, I find that we... handled locally.
- There are a lot of superintendents that are in favor of this.
- And he is the nation's number one superintendent.
Committee:
House State Government
Keywords:
education, national anthem, patriotism, school policy, constitutional amendment, SB278, released time, religious instruction, elective credit, public schools, K-12 education, Alabama Released Time Credit Act, church-state separation, First Amendment, school choice, parental consent, elective course, off-campus instruction, private religious entity, State Board of Education
AL
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
emergency medical services, military training, licensure, public health, veterans, tobacco regulation, vaping, sales restrictions, youth protection, tobacco compliance, education programs, electronic nicotine delivery systems, campus chaplain, chaplain, school chaplain, volunteer, public K-12 schools, public schools, public charter schools, education policy
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 24th, 2025
S/C on County & Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Hospitals in pursuing Local Provider Participation Funds as a local solution to local healthcare challenges
- Fourthly, it supports local flexibility in budgeting.
- Fifth, it aligns with other local government practices.
- As you guys know, ESDs are governed by local government code 775.
- I can take care of that locally, and I can control that locally.
Committee:
House S/C on County & Regional Government
Keywords:
family leave, leave pool, county employee, sick leave, vacation leave, family care, pandemic, guardianship, fencing, reservoirs, local government, regulation, land use, conservation capacity, property regulation, fence regulation, reservoir safety, county authority, fencing regulations, counties
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I would urge that these students and the testifiers all bring their passion to the local school boards
- So we said, can our board, our superintendent, that put about three years into it?
- So that's, I think, you can make a case for local control, and we can't do more.
- So that's, I think, you can make a case for local control, and we can't do more.
- So that's, I think, you can make a case for local control, and we can't do more.
Committee:
House Education Finance
Keywords:
railroad, infrastructure, transportation funding, environmental remediation, capital investment, HF921, tax increment financing, TIF, excess tax increment, school district aid, levy adjustment, property tax levy, education finance, Minnesota education aid, decertification, local government finance, school funding formula, state aid reduction, referendum equalization aid, debt service equalization
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Committee to Study Reducing the Number of School Administrative Units in the State (10/23/25)
Transcript Highlights:
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- the superintendent.
- The school board elects the superintendent. They hire a superintendent.
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Summary:
The meeting began with approval of the October 15 minutes and a brief discussion of the committee’s report process, including the likelihood of a minority report and a deadline of November 1 for any separate report. Members then heard from Jod Adams of the New Hampshire Alliance for Public Charter Schools, who gave an overview of charter schools in the state: there are 37 charter schools, with 6,034 students last year, and schools are formed by certified teachers, parents, or nonprofit organizations. She said charter schools receive about $9,180 per pupil in adequacy aid and charter school grant funding, must fundraise for additional money, and are governed by their own boards under their charters and bylaws.
Members asked about admissions, governance, transportation, and special education. Adams said charter schools are open enrollment, not geographically based, and may use lotteries when applications exceed available seats. She explained that districts and charter schools coordinate on special education and busing, with the sending district responsible for special education coordination and certain transportation obligations depending on where the student lives and attends. She also said charter schools are public schools, not selective, and that each school’s board operates independently of the local district school board, though some schools may have special arrangements.
A substantial portion of the discussion focused on funding and statutory obligations. Adams and members discussed how special education aid follows the student, while charter schools do not receive some district-level aid such as catastrophic aid; free and reduced lunch funding and Title funds can go to charter schools. Members also raised concerns that some state laws and administrative rules do not clearly specify whether they apply to charter schools, creating confusion and, in some cases, causing districts to perform services such as dyslexia screening for charter students without additional funding. Adams agreed that clearer statutory language would help and noted that charter schools are subject to many state requirements, including testing and reporting, even though not every public-school rule applies to them.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance and Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Superintendent.
- Ed Monansala, Superintendent, El Dorado County Superintendent of Schools, Nancy Albaran, Superintendent
- Corey Greenlaw, Assistant Superintendent for the National County Superintendent of Schools, Dr.
- Next, Fresno County Superintendent. We're close. Assistant Superintendent.
- Corey Greenlaw, Assistant Superintendent with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Oct 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair and this Superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Superintendent Reese, for your presentation.
- To our panel of local and regional superintendents. Okay, I think we're ready to get back to it.
- Members very much appreciate hearing from the local superintendents.
- I never dreamed I would be a superintendent. And go into my job looking for a superintendency.
- I will echo Superintendent Chavez.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (01/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- He said his issue is that they are trying to tell the local school board how to deal with its superintendent
- > case</c> dealing with the local uh in this case dealing with the local uh in this case superintendent
- school board how to deal with the local school board how to deal with their<01:04:32.440><c> superintendent
- school superintendent is the responsibility of the local school board, not the legislature.
- My question is why we want to have the RSA that tells the superintendent, the local school board, how
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 129, which would redefine “evidence-based” in public education to require objective, science-based evidence for pedagogical methods. The prime sponsor said the bill is a verbatim reintroduction from the prior session and argued that current federal definitions are too vague, allowing subjective surveys and other weak evidence to justify teaching methods. He said the bill is limited to pedagogy, not subject matter, and is intended to improve student outcomes, reduce fad-driven practices, and potentially save money by limiting unnecessary retraining and new materials.
Members asked repeatedly about the bill’s scope, including whether it would affect classroom teachers, curriculum content, and existing instructional approaches such as phonics versus whole language or queuing. The sponsor said the bill applies to state and local education bodies and educator training policies, not individual teachers in their classrooms, and that teachers would retain flexibility. He also said standardized testing could be part of a scientific study but is not itself a study, and that textbook providers could be asked to furnish the studies supporting instructional guidance included in their materials.
Several members raised concerns about the fiscal note and possible cost shifts to local districts and taxpayers. The sponsor disputed the idea that the bill would necessarily create major new costs or require additional staff, saying any costs would likely be limited and that the department is already applying federal evidence-based rules. He also said if some current methods are not science-based, updating them would be justified even if there were some initial expense. No vote or final action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Education Pre-K - 12 Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And I think we have 15 superintendents each. Donna has 6.
- And I I think that when our superintendents talk, you'll And I I think that when our superintendents
- I'm joined today with Doctor Rick Surrency who superintendent of Putnam County and Robbie Everett superintendent
- We work directly with our superintendents with Superintendent training. They engage in workshops.
- Superintendent Brown, any questions for the executive directors or the superintendent. >> Senator Berman
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance and Education Committee Feb 25th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Superintendent.
- Ed Monansala, Superintendent, El Dorado County Superintendent of Schools; Nancy Albaran, Superintendent
- Corey Greenlaw, Assistant Superintendent for the National County Superintendent of Schools; Dr.
- Next, Fresno County Superintendent. We're close. Assistant Superintendent.
- Corey Greenlaw, Assistant Superintendent with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on coherence in California’s education planning and reporting systems, especially the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) and related grant plans. Committee chairs and members described widespread frustration with duplicative, lengthy, and sometimes conflicting reporting requirements, while emphasizing that the goal was not to reduce accountability but to make planning more useful, stable, and student-centered. State Superintendent Tony Thurmond also previewed the Governor’s education budget priorities, including expanded learning, community schools, universal transitional kindergarten, literacy supports, and concerns about the proposed Prop. 98 deferral.
Panelists from the State Board of Education, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office said the LCAP was intended to balance local flexibility with statewide transparency, but has become overloaded by repeated revisions and additional requirements. They argued for fewer core reporting elements, more stability over time, better alignment of planning cycles, and integrated systems that reduce duplication. Fresno County staff described a multi-year calendar and support tools that help districts manage timelines, but said these tools only ease the burden rather than solve the underlying problem. The LAO noted that some newer plans, such as expanded learning and transportation plans, are narrative-heavy and often less informative than separate reporting requirements.
Local district leaders and county officials described the practical effects of the current system: staff time diverted from instruction, multiple portals and forms, audit risk aversion, and planning documents that can exceed 100 pages. Several superintendents said coherent systems work best when districts have clear priorities, stable governance, and aligned budgets, and when state requirements are predictable and tied to outcomes like literacy, attendance, and student achievement. The California Federation of Teachers added that coherence also depends on meaningful collaboration with educators, classified staff, parents, and communities. Committee members repeatedly asked whether the state should streamline reporting, create a uniform portal, or develop a more unified grant-reporting structure, and Thurmond said the department was piloting a simplified common form and was willing to work with the Legislature and districts on broader solutions.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Superintendents would be required to go through an inspiring Superintendent Academy.
- Have you worked with the superintendents?
- From the land of the very small school, a lot of our most successful superintendents are superintendents
- And to keep things just, I think our local superintendents and school boards will deal with that.
- And I do think that it's going to be up to local school districts and superintendents to make sure what
Committee:
House House Education
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- their local efforts to close the achievement gap.
- This is not a rebuke of local control.
- We operate where state policy meets local practice, and what we consistently see is that strong local
- let locally elected officials responsible for the As the locally elected officials responsible for the
- However, local governance cannot succeed in a vacuum.
Committee:
House Education
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- Rick Serency, who is Superintendent of Putnam County, and Robbie Edwards, Superintendent of the Fayette
- We work directly with our superintendents with superintendent training. They engage in workshops.
- The county I'm in, I'm the superintendent. I've got an assistant superintendent and four directors.
- The county I'm in, I'm the superintendent. I've got an assistant superintendent and four directors.
- Let's say our local supplement was $4,000.
Committee:
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Summary:
The Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee met to discuss the needs of rural school districts and the role of Florida’s three regional education consortia: the Panhandle Area Education Consortium, Northeast Florida Educational Consortium, and Heartland Educational Consortium. Executive directors and several rural superintendents described the consortia as member-led organizations that provide shared services, professional learning, leadership development, grant support, cooperative purchasing, risk management, IT/cybersecurity help, and back-office assistance that small districts could not afford to provide on their own. They emphasized that rural districts are often very small, have limited staff, and must still meet the same state reporting and compliance requirements as large urban systems.
Testimony focused heavily on teacher recruitment and retention, alternative certification, and the difficulty of staffing specialized roles such as CFOs, MIS directors, IT staff, and content-area teachers. Superintendents said many new hires are career changers or alternatively certified teachers who need consortium-supported training, and several argued for more flexibility in funding so districts can raise salaries and compete with neighboring districts and nearby states. Members also asked about the impact of declining enrollment, homeschooling, and voucher-related school choice; superintendents said those trends are reducing FTE and creating budget instability, while also requiring districts to right-size staff and programs.
Several speakers described the financial strain on rural districts, including rising insurance costs, transportation costs, and the challenge of forecasting budgets when enrollment changes after the school year begins. One superintendent recounted major hurricane damage and said consortium risk-management support was essential to recovery. Others said the consortia help districts pool resources for property and health insurance, payroll, student data systems, and procurement, and that this shared approach saves money and improves services. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the meeting.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Finance Subcommittee REVISED: SB1403 - Added Apr 8th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
A&B Finance Subcommittee
Committee:
House A&B Finance Subcommittee
Keywords:
sales tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, contractors, charitable purposes, state law, retirement, public employees, reemployment, benefit adjustment, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, Olympics, funding, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, local businesses, revolving fund, event hosting, sales tax, tax exemption, tax refund, Oklahoma Sales Tax Code
NM
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
corporate income tax, franchise tax, gross receipts tax, tax credit, tax deduction, controlled foreign corporation, CFC, bonus depreciation, interest expense, apportionment, unitary group, high-wage jobs tax credit, local journalism, news media, newspaper printer, physician incentive, health care workforce, affordable housing, multifamily housing, construction materials
NM
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance
Keywords:
corporate income tax, franchise tax, gross receipts tax, tax credit, tax deduction, controlled foreign corporation, CFC, bonus depreciation, interest expense, apportionment, unitary group, high-wage jobs tax credit, local journalism, news media, newspaper printer, physician incentive, health care workforce, affordable housing, multifamily housing, construction materials