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There's a few other things: permits correspondence students to retain materials, allows school board members to be employed only in emergency circumstances. And that was really part of the actual bill to say it's an emergency circumstance to be be able to be employed as subs. School board member qualifications were updated. Reopening closed schools changes from 7 to 4 years, and then the required local contribution is really what is going to provide that $6.1 million in additional funding as well. And that's just caps that growth at about 4%, or at 4%.

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