Dan Patrick presides over the Senate session on March 20. Bill Lee wants to add $1 billion to Tennessees nearly $6 billion education budget. Prices range between $124 and $840 a month, and vary based on the number of dependents and quality of coverage. State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., a Brownsville Democrat who serves as vice chair of the Finance Committee, said his worst-case scenario this session would have been massive budget cuts to public schools like the cuts lawmakers made in 2011 after a recession. Bill Lee wants to add $1 billion to Tennessees nearly $6 billion education budget. The budget also, however, decreases funding for community colleges across the state by a little more than $12 million dollars to account for the decrease of 2,009 full-time equivalent students at community colleges. I explained to him what was going on, and he said, Mom, Im not going to have to take that medicine where I'm mean and angry am I? Webber-Butler said. The budget was taken up in a joint appropriations committee today, but only for discussion. If the Legislature leaves it up to local districts to decide how to distribute the money, teachers across the state could get different amounts. The long-running Leandro court case is currently sitting at the North Carolina Supreme Court, and it will ultimately decide if a judges decision to force the state to turn over $1.7 billion to fund the plan was proper or not. [CDATA[> How do you look at your kid and say, Well, son, Im sorry but on educator salaries, we cant (pay out of pocket.). Cox for signature, Delta restoration is one small step for the Provo River, one giant leap for June suckers, Passes & fails: Heres what happened during Utahs 2023 legislative session, US to focus bison restoration on expanding tribal herds.

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