Budget Amendment ID: FY2026-S3-655

EDU 655

Increasing Vocational Education Access

Messrs. Cronin and Collins moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7035-0001, by inserting after the words “transportation program”, the following words:- “; provided further, DESE is prohibited from awarding funds from this grant program to vocational school districts that discriminate against protected classes of applicants and economically disadvantaged applicants, by using selective admissions criteria to rank order applicants, as measured by DESE opportunity gap data;".