| Updated: Jan. 19, 2021, 3:33 p.m. Usually, the biggest education battle during the legislative session is over the budget — will lawmakers boost funding and by how much? That part of the process was (mostly) taken off the table last month when leaders voted to pump $400 million of new education funding into the base budget at the start of the 2021 session. But the education community and lawmakers have a shifting landscape to navigate, with a new governor for the first time in more than a decade and schools struggling with the mammoth task of educating students during a pandemic. Plus a number of new faces on Capitol Hill will help shape education policy for the next year and beyond.