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Senate approves sweeping education code cleanup, removes statutory social‑emotional learning language
Summary
The Senate passed House Bill 10 02, a large 'deregulation' education bill that strips many older statutory provisions and removes several mentions of social‑emotional learning from state code. The measure passed 31‑18 after heated floor debate.
A sweeping education code “clean‑up” bill that removes more than a hundred outdated statutory provisions and some current policy language cleared the Senate amid strong disagreement about the role of social‑emotional learning in schools.
The bill’s author, Senator Ross, described House Bill 10 02 as a large technical overhaul: “We spent an awful lot of time on this bill…there’s some 200 plus sections of code that are affected by cleaning this up,” he said on the floor, adding that the bill removes duplicative or…
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