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Checks and Balances Proposed for Education Freedom Account Program
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Traditional homeschoolers turned out in force to oppose a bill requiring Education Freedom Account participants to take standardized tests.
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Traditional homeschoolers turned out in force to oppose a bill requiring Education Freedom Account participants to take standardized tests.
The Department of Education Commissioner should have a background in education, supporters of a bill setting the minimum requirements told a House committee Monday.
Lawmakers often do things today they know have future consequences with the attitude that will be another legislature’s challenge.
A superior court judge’s decision not to delay implementation of his order on the Statewide Education Property Tax will disrupt the local school budget process for many communities, claim those affected by the order.
Friday with most lawmakers already at their destinations for the week-long vacation, it wasn’t exactly a news dump, but an ethics opinion dump with a couple of sticky issues.
Rep. David Luneau, D-Hopkinton, speaks in favor of House Bill 1128, which would require the administrator of the Education Tax Credit Scholarship program to open a nonprofit affiliate in the state. The bill was killed Thursday by the House.
Once again, the House gave initial approval to a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana that many hope will cross the “t”s and dot the “i”s to eventually make it into law.
The state’s school building aid program would be overhauled and opened to state approved charter schools under a bill passed by the Senate Wednesday.
Rep. Angela Brennan, D-Bow, touts the state joining the Electronic Registration Information Center, at a hearing on House Bill 1557 Tuesday before the House Election Law Committee.