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• schools, which are defined as schools serving grade six or higher, so typically a middle or high school
• schools.
• “New schools and/or existing community schools?” “It will be for new schools, I believe.
• school sites.
• schools.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• school or their virtual charter school, wherever they're attending full-time.
• Our catalog is deeper than any school, district, or charter school that you can find.
• school.
• locally, whether it's a charter school or a private school.
• school.

Keywords: 989, all

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• board and schools.
• board and schools.
• </c> they're going to run their school they're going to run their school schools<00:35:27.920><c> next
• My middle school is about a $5 million repair, just that one school.
• </c> the 20 24 school year or 2025 school the 20 24 school year or 2025 school year<01:19:10.159><c>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• and charter schools.
• and school climate and culture, from school mental health services and the statewide school nurse achievement
• the school day.
• school</c><01:21:07.840><c> excellence</c> showcased in the school excellence showcased in the school
• </c> High School. High School.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• When compensation school success.
• We need to value that school. classroom. We need to value that school.
• Schools.
• nature of the school.
• or the nature of the size of the school or the nature of the school. school. school.

Keywords: 958, all

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• understand, our IEPs are done at our public schools and not at our charter schools or private schools
• Where the IEPs are only provided by public schools, not by charter schools.
• public school students?
• So, charter schools are not voucher schools? They are not. But charter schools receive vouchers?
• these IEPs both with charter schools... schools as well as private schools, at least in my county; I

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• </c> Advantage is a Minnetonka High School Advantage is a Minnetonka High School program<00:04:09.280
• </c> Voters on school safety in Minnesota. Voters on school safety in Minnesota.
• One of my favorite things about my school and my school district is the staff.
• One of my favorite things about my school and my school district is the staff.
• </c> to the school board. to the school board.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We've had schools like four-star schools and those kind of things in the past.
• Great school improvement processes.
• in their schools.
• School districts had approximately 47 school policies that they needed to update last year to conform
• Idaho public school.

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 1339 from Sen. Dave Lent, who described it as an education accountability and modernization measure that shifts schools away from compliance-driven reporting toward locally set, measurable student-outcome goals. He said the bill would reduce unnecessary reporting, provide a three-year support and intervention cycle for struggling schools, and recognize excellence while preserving local control. Victoria Young testified in opposition, arguing the bill echoed No Child Left Behind-style accountability and could unfairly single out schools, while Quinn Perry of the Idaho School Boards Association supported the bill but raised a limited concern about intervention language that could affect local authority over calendars or budgets. The committee then took up House Bill 516, a cleanup bill related to last year’s prohibition on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. Rep. Dale Hawkins and Doug Taylor said the bill simply removes leftover “age appropriate/developmentally appropriate” language from the prior law, arguing that the K-12 prohibition is already absolute and the extra phrase creates confusion and legal uncertainty. Opponents, including Mary Brown, Jean Henscheide, Scaruleen, Nissa Nagle, and Jeffrey Watkins, argued the change would eliminate age-appropriate instruction, parental choice, and classroom discussion of relevant history, literature, and current events, and could chill instruction affecting LGBTQ students and broader education. Supporters, including Grace Howitt of the Idaho Family Policy Center, said districts had not consistently implemented the prior law and that the bill would better protect parents and prevent what they described as inappropriate gender instruction. Committee members pressed witnesses on whether the bill conflicted with existing Idaho Code, especially the older family-life and sex-education statute that leaves policy decisions to local school boards, and whether removing the phrase could create unintended effects on teaching topics like puberty, Supreme Court cases, or literature. After debate, Sen. Nichols moved to send HB 516 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation, but Sen. Burtenshaw offered an alternate motion to hold the bill at the call of the chair. The committee adopted the motion to hold HB 516 at the call of the chair, so no floor recommendation was issued.

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• So, rural schools and small schools are something near and dear to me.
• We can do school A that has two programs, school B that has three programs, and school C that has one
• I also want to point out that this year We required any school that was a designated school, a CSI school
• So not in high school. Maybe it was good for middle school.
• score to evaluate your school, your school program?

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• School board members, that's not the role of a school board member to take attendance.
• , it's no contact with the school for the first 15 days of the next school year, the school district
• ><c> the</c><00:04:52.400><c> school</c> days of the next school year the school days of the next school
• It's not just a school issue, though we would love it to be just a school issue.
• It's not just a school issue, though we would love it to be just a school issue.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• K12 private school kids private school K12 private school kids in<00:26:57.279><c> Minnesota.
• It serves elementary, middle school, and high school students.
• It serves elementary, middle school, and high school students.
• </c> non-public schools and charter schools. non-public schools and charter schools.
• ,</c> schools and traditional public schools, schools and traditional public schools, which<01:23:31.120

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We've done it in other schools. We've done it in other schools, school districts around Texas.
• Yes, that's true in public schools.
• Two of my schools in our school district in Bernie ISD.
• I think that schools like to maintain their end... going through an empty school, very different than
• The driving that number is the data on how many times have multiple schools not had a school shooter,

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 met with a quorum and announced a full agenda, including combined public testimony for two bills related to student personal communication devices. The committee first took up Senate Bill 1262 by Senator Nichols, a school safety cleanup bill following House Bill 3. The bill would allow TEA to commission peace officers for school safety purposes, require annual renewal of good-cause exceptions to armed guard requirements, create a new report based on intruder detection audits and vulnerability assessments, and require behavioral threat assessment teams to include someone with specific knowledge of a special education student’s disability. Committee members asked about the difference between TCOLE licensing and TEA commissioning, the scope of the officers’ authority, and how the good-cause exception would work. The committee substitute was adopted, and public testimony included support from school safety and drone-response advocates, Disability Rights Texas in favor of the special education provisions, and a student witness raising concerns about the mental health impact of repeated lockdowns and the need for immediate, reliable school safety responses. The bill was left pending after testimony, then the committee briefly recessed and later reopened testimony to hear the student witness. The committee then laid out Senate Bill 2252 by Senator Creighton, a major early literacy and numeracy bill for kindergarten through third grade. Creighton said the bill builds on prior literacy efforts by funding teacher stipends for literacy and math academies, providing free and clearly administered screeners and assessments, expanding screening options, clarifying how results are used, supporting high-quality pre-K, and increasing the early education allotment. He emphasized low reading performance and the need for early intervention. Members discussed how the bill differs from earlier academy models and whether the assessments are diagnostic or high-stakes; Creighton and witnesses said the tools are intended to identify students needing support, not to serve as punitive testing. The committee adopted the substitute. Witnesses for SB 2252 largely supported the bill. A Uplift Education representative described strong gains from small-group literacy tutoring and said students receiving targeted support can make more than a year of growth in a year. An education specialist explained that the bill aligns general education screening with existing dyslexia and special education practices and helps districts identify students who need intervention before a disability evaluation is required. A Commit Partnership witness cited statewide reading data, the importance of high-quality pre-K, and the need for transparent, consistent progress monitoring and parent engagement. Members asked about the meaning of the growth data, how dyslexia screening works, and how the bill would help identify struggling students earlier. Before finishing all questions, the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair after the floor session.

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• c> Community</c><00:32:11.760><c> School</c> name of school I hener Community School name of school I
• But yes, you're high school. It is high school.
• ><00:49:13.160><c> sign</c><00:49:13.720><c> I</c> school it is High School Middle sign I school it is
• schools.
• schools.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Finance Committee Division II met with the New Hampshire Department of Education to review school nutrition programs and related funding. Department staff Melissa White and Kelly Rambo walked through a packet covering the National School Lunch Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Community Eligibility (CEP), After School Snack Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program, explaining that these are federally funded USDA programs, with some state supplemental funding in certain areas. They also reviewed reimbursement rates for lunch, breakfast, child/adult care, and summer meals, noting that summer rates follow calendar-year timing while most others follow the state fiscal year. Members asked several questions about how the funding works, especially the difference between federal reimbursements and the state match. Staff explained that the state lunch line in the budget is a fixed match amount tied to federal participation, while breakfast funding is broken out by meal type and reimbursement category. They also discussed why FY 2022 federal spending was much higher during COVID, when USDA covered meals at the free rate for all students, and why FY 2023 and FY 2024 dropped as normal income-eligibility rules returned. A committee member also asked about the “severe need lunch” two-cent rate, and staff said they did not know USDA’s formula. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on summer meals and the distinction between the Summer Food Service Program and Summer EBT. Staff explained that SFSP provides meals at approved sites, which can be open or closed sites, while Summer EBT is a separate DHHS-operated benefit program that provides funds to families. They said some schools or sites may not qualify under USDA rules, but eligible children can often use another nearby open site, and the department posts an interactive map and phone line to help families find locations. The committee also discussed the Community Eligibility Provision. Staff said New Hampshire currently has three CEP schools, that the eligibility threshold had recently been lowered from 40% to 25% identified students, and that the program allows participating schools to offer free meals to all students while the local district covers the non-federal share. Members asked whether any districts in the 25% to 40% range had joined; staff said no. The department offered to provide the eligibility report in Excel and noted that the CEP intent is to reduce application burden, though the lower threshold can make the local cost share harder for some districts to absorb.

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• He said that by August, when 13,000 school teachers go back to 295 schools and wait for 27,000 school
• School more of the we have Urban schools School more of the we have Urban schools like<00:25:57.520><
• at least one middle school and one elementary school had to offer it.
• of school facilities, the daily school operations and implementation of public school curriculum remain
• However, it's on school property, and principals still have control of their schools. midd high school

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• They can specialize in public schools, home education, charter schools, and private schools.
• , a charter school, or a private school.
• Only some schools do that. Only some school districts do that. Only some schools do that.
• school tax credit.
• of public schools.

Bills: SB1042, SB1043, SB1044, SB1135, SB1136, SB1142, SB1180, SB1221, SB1252, SB1254, SCR1003

Keywords: public funds, virtual currency, bitcoin, investment, Arizona Strategic Digital Asset Reserve Act, state treasurer, retirement system, state payments, cryptocurrency, Arizona law, payment methods, government transactions, property tax, tax exemption, Arizona Revised Statutes, digital currency, workers' compensation, death benefits, burial costs, spousal compensation

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• This will just ease up the pressure on rural schools in finding people to come work for the school or
• serve for the school.
• To come work for the school or serve for the school.
• So it would be up to the school or the school board. Hey, wait.
• school or you can't even pray with kids in school.

Summary: The Senate Education Committee considered a long agenda of education-related bills, with most measures receiving unanimous or near-unanimous support. Early actions included passage of SB 843, which allows certain rural schools with low average daily membership to hire teachers related to board members in the second degree, and SB 1733, which requires schools to report child sexual abuse allegations to law enforcement within 24 hours before conducting their own investigation. The committee also advanced SB 1476, a Commissioners of the Land Office cleanup bill that makes land exchange approvals permissive, updates terminology, and expands permanent school fund investment options to include private equity and private credit; members questioned CLO staff about appraisals, notices, ethics, and audits before voting it out 11-0. A major portion of the meeting focused on SB 1237, the Teacher Bill of Rights, which would codify various teacher protections involving religious expression, discipline, planning time, workplace safety, and due process. Senators raised extensive questions about religious symbols, prayer, Bible use, classroom discipline, and whether some provisions were already in law; the author said the bill was intended to protect teachers and improve recruitment and retention. Despite concerns that some language was vague or duplicative, the bill passed 7-4. The committee also passed SB 1410 to codify the Ag in the Classroom program after deleting a section that would have increased a license plate fee, and SB 1894, which would remove the five-year cap on professional development hours for certain teacher training, though the title was struck for further work. Later, the committee approved SB 1272 to raise the income cap for the Oklahoma Tuition Equalization Grant, SB 1204 to provide three days of bereavement leave for education employees after the loss of a spouse or child, including miscarriage, and SB 1721 to extend the sunset of the Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education. It also passed SB 1725 on higher-education expressive activity and free speech training, SB 1735 giving CareerTech sole authority over its accreditation, SB 1337 establishing paid paternity leave for education employees, SB 1339 codifying funding for the 2023 teacher pay raise for off-formula districts, SB 1461 extending the OETA sunset to 2031, and SB 1975 centralizing notice of AP testing locations. Several bills drew brief discussion about fiscal impact, local control, and retention benefits, and the committee adjourned after noting one agenda item had been laid over.

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• before school programs.
• school...
• We're not saying get rid of public schools. Public schools are wonderful.
• schools during school hours.
• Within the school system?

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• </c> about this when they're going to school. about this when they're going to school.
• Paul public schools where we stood up what we called care teams in these schools.
• Paul public schools.
• </c> health crisises in schools. Thanks. health crisises in schools. Thanks.
• One last thing, and I want to clarify on the private school or non-public school.

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• security, school safety, etc.
• School safety, etc.
• that asks a school to take on another FTE, provide additional benefit. ...of a school that asks a school
• supports inside the school are a key major component to school safety, and giving school districts the
• And I know in my school with 33 school sites, vice principals, ...in my school with 33 school sites,

Summary: The committee took up a long agenda of education bills, with several measures passing on bipartisan votes. Early items included SB 1632 on career readiness assessments and college credit pathways, SB 1594 requiring principals to be trained in special education law, SB 2045 establishing 30 minutes of daily recess for younger grades, and SB 1630 allowing districts to count a day of virtual instruction when high school students are taking statewide assessments. Other bills passed addressed school security funds (SB 1251, adding licensed mental health services as an allowable use), teacher association access (SB 1884), library book complaints and penalties (SB 1250), human trafficking survivors’ access to higher education (SB 1262), reduced-price meals moving students into free meal status (SB 1374), high-dosage tutoring for early literacy (SB 1292), and the repeal of the sunset on the Innovative Pathways to Teaching Program (SB 1432). Votes were generally favorable, though SB 1251 and SB 1884 drew the most debate and both passed 8-3, while SB 1250 passed 7-3 and SB 1374 passed 9-1. Several bills generated extended discussion over local control, school safety, and teacher retention. SB 1251 drew concerns that school security funds were being broadened beyond physical security, while supporters argued mental health supports can also improve safety. SB 1884 prompted questions about whether it would open collective bargaining or negotiation meetings to other associations; the author said the intent was to prevent “closed shops” and ensure equal access, while opponents argued equal access already exists and the bill could create confusion. SB 1790, the Protected Learning Environments Act, drew testimony from educator Dr. Elizabeth Pleasant about classroom discipline, teacher burnout, and student behavior; the bill would direct SDE to provide guidance for a three-tier discipline matrix, and it passed 7-2. SB 1481, increasing recess to 40 minutes and prohibiting it as punishment, and SB 1614, limiting adjunct teachers in early grades, also passed after brief discussion. The committee also heard broader policy proposals on federal uncertainty and school leadership. SB 1489 would prepare Oklahoma for a possible federal block grant of IDEA funds, fold some parent-rights and principal-training provisions into state law, and address the cost and backlog of special education dispute resolution; it passed 9-0. SB 1718 proposed an Oklahoma Principal Leadership Development Program for new and early-career principals, with discussion focused on program structure, portability, and stipends. Throughout the meeting, members repeatedly emphasized teacher support, student safety, and the balance between state guidance and local district discretion.

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• We've had schools like four-star schools and those kind of things in the past.
• years of high school transitioning.
• Straight cis high school students are interacting with LGBT high school students every day of their lives
• in their schools.
• School districts had approximately 47 school policies that they needed to update last year to conform

Keywords: 989, all