June Board of Ed: budget update

 Bell: "our meeting schedule is always not quite where the Legislature is in their version"
conference committee is working to produce a budget
Driscoll signed an interim budget, provides spending authority until the general appropriation is finalized
"I think we're going to have a pretty good handle on the things we're going to see"
Third year of SOA: $6.7B of chapter 70
increases in circuit breaker, transportation accounts between 90-100% of need
increases in early college, career and tech ed
in the middle of federal spending
80% of ESSER II claimed; have until September of this year to spend
a little over 30% of ESSER III; a little over billion on this to go before September of 2024
released funding for federal entitlement grants 
Moriarty: packet for Board had information on Reading Recovery, does legislature get that?
Bell: not that I know of
Tutwiler: "this is a big blip on our radar" and not letting it go