This commission is going to be a bottoms up look at education with a focus on updated funding strategy, including the foundation grant and making sure more resources go to the classroom, more resources into the classroom. And number two, Let's build on our special education reforms which included $80 million in additional funding in the last session. emphasizing more local and regional options, better for the kids and saves you money. And third, we have 207 school districts. That doesn't mean we have to replicate every overhead function 207 times. (16:13–16:22)
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