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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…
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsLast 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…
DetailsThis week’s legislative tracking shows relatively minimal movement on K-12 education bills, with no significant actions taken since the last update. However, board members should monitor several bills that could directly impact district operations: HB 0023/Educator Certifications and Training (Daley), which would require mass casualty incident training for all educators and is currently in the…
DetailsCommittee weeks are officially underway! In addition to the filed bills you’ll see in the report from Dr. Kim McDougal at the Arrow Group, the Speaker of the House announced in a memorandum (sent to all school board members by FSBA last week) that several bills have been filed to address property tax reform, all…
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