On March 15, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, providing funding for the activities of the federal government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and securing historic support for the Ukrainian people (White House fact sheet and Secretary Cardona’s statement). In the $1.5 trillion omnibus funding agreement is $76.4 billion in discretionary…
Our Legislative Team at GrayRobinson has put together a budget summary for the fiscal year 2022-2023. This side-by-side comparison to the current fiscal year’s budget provides detailed information on the budget as it passed the legislature on March 14, 2022. You can find the budget summary HERE. A special thanks to Kim McDougal and Carlecia…
Significant financial gains can be seen in FSBA’s five legislative platform priority areas: mental health, accountability and assessments, funding, workforce education, and teacher retention. Learn more here.
We have concluded week 9, the final full week of the 2022 Legislative Session. HERE you will find the legislative bill tracker supplied to us by our team at GrayRobinson. All of the bills we were tracking are listed on the report in numerical order. A few of the bills to highlight: SB 1048 Student…
We are in the home stretch of Legislative Session. Budget conferencing is ongoing and we continue to wait to see what the final PreK-12 Education portion of the budget will be. HERE you will find the legislative bill tracker supplied to us by our team at GrayRobinson. All of the bills we are tracking are…
SCHOOL FINANCE 2.0 April 28-29, 2022 | Thursday 8:30 – 5:00 | Friday 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Mission Inn Resort & Club, Howey-in-the-Hills, FL Want to learn more? Visit our tentative agenda here. School Finance 2.0 digs deeper into the financing of school programs. Topics such as instructional unit placements, performance-based pay and a more…
We have completed week 7 of the 9 week Legislative Session. We are still awaiting the start to budget conferencing in which the House and Senate will come together to negotiate the differences in the two budgets. Remember the only constitutional requirement of the legislature during legislative session is to pass the same balanced budget…
EXECUTIVE OFFICER NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Help lead YOUR professional membership organization OR suggest someone else to lead! Executive officer nominations are open today through March 18, 2022. We encourage you to consider nominating yourself for consideration or encouraging another school board leader to complete the application process to be considered for a leadership position in FSBA.…
COLLEGE SCORECARD UPDATES On February 7, the Department released updates to the College Scorecard that make the interactive tool more useful for students and families weighing college options. The tool also features new and revised information that may be beneficial to school counselors, college access providers, researchers, and other critical stakeholders. These updates include restoring…
We have hit the halfway point of the 2022 Legislative Session! This means things are moving very quickly and there will be more focus on the budget process. This week, both the House and Senate are scheduled to debate and pass their budget proposals out of their individual chambers. From here, the budget moves into…