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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some Connecticut lawmakers want to stop state approval of additional charter schools.
The General Assembly's Education Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday on a bill that would impose a moratorium on the state's education commissioner from approving more these schools, which can receive public funding but operate apart from the regular public school system.
Proponents of the bill contend charters schools are syphoning scarce resources from traditional public schools.
But Kara Neidhardt, state director for Families for Excellent Schools, said more than 3,600 students are currently on waiting lists for charter schools in Connecticut. She said if the bill passes, that waiting list will only worsen.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget included $12 million more in fiscal year 2016 for 1,250 new charter school seats.
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