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Legislators describe school-board transparency changes and new firearm-safety instruction for students
Summary
Representatives described a lawmaking effort to require clearer school-board posting of agendas and votes and a change (after amendments) to make firearm-safety instruction in schools more broadly available to students.
Local lawmakers at the Washington County Republican Women luncheon discussed several education-related measures that advanced during the session, including a bill on school-board transparency and another requiring age-appropriate firearm-safety instruction in K–12 schools.
Representative Walt Brooks described a transparency measure that aims to make school-board actions easier for the public to find online — including meeting notices, topics, and vote records — and said the proposal met resistance from some school-board members before being attached to…
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