Local education group urges board to require BCI/FBI background checks for release-time programs
Catherine 'Kitty' Schwan, director of the Lorraine and Erie County Secular Education Association, urged the board to require BCI/FBI background checks for LifeWise release-time religious instruction and raised enforcement and IEP-related concerns; she cited statute 33 13.6022 B4 and HB8.
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During the public comment period, Catherine "Kitty" Schwan of Vermilion Township, who identified herself as director of the Lorraine and Erie County Secular Education Association, urged the Vermilion Local School District Board of Education to require BCI/FBI background checks for staff and volunteers involved in release-time religious instruction programs (LifeWise was the organization she referenced).
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