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Central York legislative committee reports on state bills: cursive instruction, AEDs, transportation funding among measures discussed
Summary
At the May 12 meeting Director Walker briefed the board on several state-level education bills under consideration, including proposals on cursive instruction, AEDs and CPR staffing, transportation funding data reforms, teacher certification changes and school-weapon notification requirements.
Director Walker, reporting for the district’s legislative committee at the May 12 meeting, summarized several bills moving through the Pennsylvania legislature and hearings in Harrisburg. “One of them would require all students to receive instruction in cursive handwriting by the end of fifth grade,” Walker said of a bill in the Senate.
Walker listed bills under consideration: Senate Bill 645 (cursive instruction), House Bill 191 (requiring AED defibrillators on-site and at least…
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