Thread by @TinaForKentucky

🧵 Debate on HB9, charter schools. I called for 5 amendments:

1⃣ Ban 100% sweeps run by for-profit management companies.
2⃣ Return SPED funding if student returns to district school.
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@kyhousedems #kyga22 @NPEaction @DianeRavitch

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3⃣ Report data on student withdrawals and disciplinary action.
4⃣ Remove unconstitutional appropriation of local funding from charter funding mechanism.
5⃣ Ensure that charter accepts students from a waitlist over the course of a school year.

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I got the com sub for HB9 on Mon. at 8:11 p.m. The Ed Com meeting was Tues at 8:00 a.m. during which the com sub was adopted.

I immediately requested that all of my amendments be filed to the sub. The amendments I had filed to the original bill were no longer germane.

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HB9 was called on the House floor on the same day as the sub was adopted in com. In order to call my amendments, the rules had to be suspended and 51 members had to agree to suspend the rules.

That did not happen for all 5 of my amendments.

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This is unfortunate, because my amendments could have helped to ensure that charters in KY "take all comers" as the sponsor stated and that charters don't discourage or counsel out students who are more expensive to educate, ...

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... something that is well-researched by @wagmamommandi and Kevin Welner of @NEPCtweet.

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You can read HB9, the KY charter bill that creates a funding mechanism and a pilot program, and all of my amendments here:
➡️ apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22rs/hb…

HB9, funding charter schools, passed the House 51-46 and has moved on to the KY Senate. 😢

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