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Resident urges Millard schools to oppose LB 89, asks district to testify
Summary
A Millard resident urged the district to publicly oppose LB 89, a state bill addressing transgender students’ access to sports and bathrooms, and asked why the district did not testify in Lincoln.
Mary Anne Folgert, a Millard resident who gave her address to the record, told the Millard Public Schools board that she was disappointed the district did not send a representative to testify in a neutral capacity at a Feb. 7 public hearing on LB 89 in Lincoln.
Folgert said LB 89, as she described it, would ban transgender students from sports and restrict bathroom access and that implementation responsibilities would fall to local school districts. “This bill will create more problems than it solves,” Folgert said. She told the board that Millard Public Schools had previously navigated transgender inclusion with guidance from the Nebraska School Activities Association and district practice, and she urged the district to be “more vocal and transparent about advocating for all of our students.”
Folgert asked the district to advocate at the Legislature to preserve local discretion. A board member (not named in the meeting record) told Folgert the administration would provide a comment in writing and mail it to her.
The meeting record does not show any formal board motion or vote related to LB 89, nor does it record a district position on the bill. The only action recorded in the transcript was the board member’s offer to have the administration send Folgert a written response by mail.
The transcript does not indicate whether the district later submitted testimony in Lincoln or whether the administration plans further public advocacy on LB 89.
