This week showed significant legislative activity with several key education and property tax bills advancing. Board members should closely monitor HB 0127/Required Instruction in Cursive Writing (Overdorf), which has now moved to the Education & Employment Committee after passing its first subcommittee, mandating cursive writing instruction and proficiency demonstrations by specified grades. Notably, SB 0156/Criminal Offenses…
This week saw increased legislative activity with several new bills advancing through the process. Board members should particularly monitor HB 0127/Required Instruction in Cursive Writing (Overdorf), which is now scheduled for committee hearing on November 18th at 1:00 pm before the Student Academic Success Subcommittee—this bill would mandate cursive writing instruction and demonstration of proficiency by…
This week brought significant new activity in K-12 education bills, with several noteworthy filings and committee movements. Board members should particularly monitor HB 0305/Statewide, Standardized Assessments (Harris) and its Senate companion SB 0342 (Arrington), which would require DOE to develop multilingual versions of state assessments and allow parents to prohibit their use in certain languages—a potentially controversial…
Last week saw several new K-12 education bills filed that warrant board member attention. HB 0235/Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle (Driskell) was filed and has already advanced to the Education Administration Subcommittee—this bill would prohibit discrimination based on protected hairstyles in K-20 public education and specified private schools. Additionally, SB 0252 (Jones), an identical companion bill known as…