Conference committee for FY26 is out

 A lot of the education money had been agreed upon already, but two education policy matters of note:

• the House-proposed "freeze and send to study" on vocational admission regulation changes is not in the conference committee budget, thus those regulations will stand as approved
  
  
• the amendment the Senate passed for a chapter 70 study is in the conference committee budget 

I've updated my spreadsheet with the numbers from the conference committee. There are a number of studies in the education sections: sex ed, transportation, teacher workforce, in addition to the above. Do note that the full SOA increase is being covered by Fair Share, which...I would argue is not what I, anyway, thought I was voting for. 

Note that, while the conference committee has finished its work, it's highly unlikely that we'll have a state budget today, as Governor Healey has ten days to make vetoes if she wishes.