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Legislative liaison warns of special session, voucher scholarship proposal and several education bills
Summary
At the Lakeland Board of Education meeting, Legislative Liaison Michelle Childs briefed the board on a Jan. 27 special session that will include a proposed school-voucher scholarship program and noted other bills already filed on cellphones in schools, end-of-course testing and school board recall.
Michelle Childs, the board’s legislative liaison, told the Lakeland Board of Education at its January meeting that the state legislature has called a special session for Jan. 27 that will include a proposed voucher scholarship program and two other topics.
The vouchers proposal “would be vouchers to attend private school using public funds,” Childs said. “They want to start with 20,000. Half of them will be income limited, but even the…
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