K-12 Spending Expansion: Bureaucrats Over Students

Description

This partisan education finance package raises appropriations by $2.3 billion for FY2024-25, a 9.8% increase, while tying less than 2% of funds to performance benchmarks. It adds over 30 new state mandates for curriculum, staffing, and reporting, with no measurable improvement to student achievement. CPAC opposes HF 5 as a costly expansion of government control that prioritizes bureaucrats and unions over students, families, and school choice. The Senate passed the bill 35-32 and it was signed on June 14, 2025.