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Delegate Tomlinson seeks statewide tracking of school injury incidents
Summary
A bill before the House Ways and Means Committee would require Maryland public schools and state institutions to track and report injury incidents that occur on campus, after lawmakers heard testimony about repeated, unrecorded assaults on staff and students.
Delegate Chris Tomlinson presented House Bill 11-94 to the House Ways and Means Committee on March 5, asking the panel to require public elementary and secondary schools, the Maryland School for the Blind, the Maryland School for the Deaf and schools that fall under the Juvenile Services Education Program to develop and implement a system to track and report injury incidents that occur on campus.
Tomlinson said the bill is focused on incidents “where, whether intentional or accidental, … a student, teacher, or school employee injures another student, teacher, or employee.” He described conversations with teachers across several Maryland systems who reported repeated physical…
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