An Act relative to educational collaboratives

This bill modifies conflict-of-interest rules for employees of educational collaboratives (regional groups of school districts) and their member schools. It allows these employees to have financial interests in contracts their collaborative or school district awards for educational services, professional development, or related student/family support, provided they disclose the contracts in writing to both agencies involved. The employee's supervisor and the collaborative's head must approve these arrangements before services begin, and contracts must either be publicly noticed or awarded through open competition. This directly affects school district employees and collaborative staff who may now engage in financial arrangements with their own organizations under these disclosure and approval requirements.