For Your Reading Pleasure.  Here is a link to the E-12 bill on which agreement was reached yesterday.  Only 140 pages as there is very little in terms of new policy.  As I reported yesterday, the major parts of the agreement are:

• 2% increase in the general education basic formula in each year of the biennium.  This costs $388 million.
• $90 million to prevent the special education cross-subsidy from increasing further.
• $47 million to maintain the 4,000 pre-kindergarten spots that were part of the School Readiness Plus program.
• $30 million in school safety grants.  This program is contingent on there being an additional surplus at the end of the current fiscal year.

All told, those appropriations end up being above the $540 million target, but the school safety grants hang in the balance due to the forecast surplus requirement.

Link:  E-12 Agreement--Bill Language

Link:  E-12 Agreement Summary (Note Initials in Upper Righthand Corner)