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Committee votes to recommend due pass on bill renaming special‑education categories

2117564 · January 14, 2025
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Summary

The House Human Services Committee voted to recommend a do‑pass on House Bill 11‑64, which would change certain special education labels used in state identification (for example, replacing "emotional disturbance" with "emotional disability" and renaming "hearing impairment" to "deaf or hard of hearing").

Representative Cynthia Schreiber Beck, R‑District 25, told the committee House Bill 11 64 was drafted at the request of the North Dakota Association of School Psychologists and that the proposed wording changes were vetted with parents, teachers, administrators and the Department of Public…

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