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ODE seeks broader remedies for student discrimination, drops contested religious-activity standard in SB 867 hearing
Summary
At a Senate Education Committee hearing, Oregon Department of Education staff proposed new authority to order schools to recompense students harmed by discrimination, described limits on the proposal, and said they will seek an amendment to remove a provision on religious-entanglement complaints.
The Oregon Department of Education told the Oregon Senate Education Committee during a public hearing that Senate Bill 867 would let the agency order public schools to recompense students who lose educational services because of unlawful discrimination and would change how certain reports of misconduct are handled.
ODE officials also said they will seek an amendment to remove a section of the bill that would have created a new pathway for complaints about religious activity in public schools, calling the law on religious entanglement unsettled and not ready for definition in statute.
The proposal would authorize ODE to require a school to provide lost services or to reimburse “reasonable costs incurred” by a student or parent to obtain those services, similar to…
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