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District monitors Nebraska bills on education funding, standards and option enrollment

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Board and district staff summarized legislative activity affecting schools, including shell bills that could carry multiple amendments, LB 300 and bills on student devices, chaplains, option enrollment and standards; staff said they are tracking hearings and appropriations as the session advances.

District leaders gave the Committee of the Whole a legislative briefing on Feb. 27 that surveyed bills affecting K–12 policy and funding as the Legislature entered roughly the mid-point of the session.

Staff described three shell bills that currently hold education and retirement language and warned such vehicles can be amended later in session to add unrelated provisions.…

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