PGCPS committee summaries bills on special education reporting, threats and phones; recommends six policies to full board

Prince George’s County Public Schools’ Policy & Governance Committee on April 1 received administrative summaries of several state education bills that reached crossover and recommended six district policies to the full Board of Education for consideration.

Ms. Welsh briefed the committee on a range of bills. She said the district supports a bill requiring publication of special‑education service‑delivery models because “we already do that. So of course we're very much in favor of it.” That bill would require school systems to post all delivery models on their websites so parents — including those with parentally placed private school students — can access them.

Other bills staff summarized included: - House Bill 1265 — revisions to reportable offenses: the bill removes a list of multiple offenses from the statutory list but adds two offenses,…