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The Joint Budget Committee resumed figure setting for the Department of Educationon, training its skepticism on the Academic Accelerator Math Grant Program — a $24.5 million, math-focused after-school effort that JBC staff said had underwhelmed on results — before voting 5-0 to trim it while sparing the current school year.
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·Dept. of Education figure setting: Academic Accelerator Math Grant ProgramPassed
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“it seems like there, if you wanted to just end the program early, you ought to be able to get $7 million, $8 million, something like that. I would think that that would be an option at least.”
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Sa. The joint budget committee will come to order. We are returning to figure setting for the Department of Education, accepting public school finance and categoricals. Ms. Bickle, are we on page 150? 154, yes. Okay, so we are revisiting another program that was created quite a few years ago. 23, 24, there was 24.5 million that was put into this academic accelerator math grant program. Yeah. And it. And so I don't have a lot of information about what's going on, but it sounds like there might be 1.5 million that you could recapture, you know, from 26, 27. It's been slower. The rollout's been slower than anticipated. My understanding is it looks quite a bit like the out of school time grant program, except for that with a math lens on it. So it's sort of like after school stuff that's with a math focus. And it's taken a while to get going. It seemed like they really used the first two years as planning grants. And so there's expectation there will be more money spent this year and next. But again, still seemed like you could take some money back without, I mean, or you could take…
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