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Board legislative liaison outlines bills affecting Lakeland schools, from charter changes to recess rules
Summary
Michelle Childs, the board’s legislative liaison, updated the Lakeland Board of Education on several pending Tennessee bills including proposals on school board election timing, virtual students’ sports participation, charter schools operating outside a home LEA, recess minutes and preschool special education fiscal notes.
Michelle Childs gave the board a legislative update March 3 on several bills in the Tennessee General Assembly that could affect Lakeland School System operations.
Childs summarized multiple measures: a proposal to put county school boards on the same election cycle as legislative bodies (SB 1336 as cited by the liaison), a bill to cut the number of state-mandated assessments (SB 415), and a measure (SB 690) that would require a student enrolled in a virtual public school to be allowed to participate in sports at the zoned public school — a bill the Tennessee School…
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