The state Senate Education Committee is going to make a mid-session personnel change. Erie County Republican Senator Dan Laughlin is officially moving from the Education Committee to the Community, Economic, and Recreational Development Committee. It has been announced that his replacement will be Rich Alloway, a Republican Senator from Franklin County. The result of such a move is likely to have significant consequences for SB 2, a bill that would allow students in the lowest-performing public schools to use the money the state would have spent on their education for other school options, including private schools. Sen. Laughlin has been a key opponent of SB 2 and a big reason the bill failed by a single vote to get to the Senate floor in October. Alloway is one of the bill’s co-sponsors.