In the Division of Children's Programs portion of the public school budget, Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow, offered a substitute motion to shift $963,500 targeted for paying for college entrance exams to school district discretionary funds. Ringo said those exams still would be required to be funded, as it's in state rules, but as the dollar amounts are uncertain, it would give school districts the flexibility to use unspent funds for other uses. That motion failed on a 4-15, straight party-line vote (Rep. George Eskridge, R-Dover, has left to address a bill in another committee). The original motion, without that change, then passed 15-4.

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