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House Education panel hears AOE request to delay parts of 2023 school-safety law implementation
Summary
Agency of Education staff told the House Education Committee the agency seeks to extend deadlines in the 2023 school-safety Act 29, delay statewide behavioral threat assessment reporting until 2027, and perform limited interim data collection in 2025–26 while it refines the data process.
Lindsay Hedges, interim director of policy and communications at the Agency of Education (AOE), told the House Education Committee on Feb. 26 that the agency is proposing targeted delays to parts of Act 29, Vermont’s 2023 school-safety legislation, to allow districts more time to refine emergency operations plans and to align threat-assessment reporting across schools.
Hedges said the draft committee bill would push back the implementation deadline for emergency operations plans and align behavioral threat assessment (BTA) reporting to start in July 2027 for both schools that had teams in place on July 2023 and those that form teams later. “We are hoping to align all of the reporting to begin at July of 2027,” Hedges…
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