In the Senate while some bills were passed or killed along party lines, there was unanimous agreement on SB 266-FN, which would divert Keno revenues to school building aid.
The bill now goes to the Senate Finance committee. Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, called it a step in the right direction toward fixing the state’s “broken education funding system.”
Senate Majority Leader Dan Feltes, D-Concord, said the vote was a “bipartisan rebuke to the state’s current system of kindergarten funding. It was an overwhelming message to the governor, who underfunds kindergarten in his budget once again, that the Senate wants to end the connection between kindergarten and Keno and finally treat kindergarten students as equal to every other grade in the state’s education funding calculations.”
