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House bill would reimburse schools for implicit‑bias graduate credits for educators
Summary
House Bill 165 would reimburse districts for implicit-bias training or graduate credits for licensed educators, with the State Board of Education, Chancellor and DEW setting standards. Sponsors framed the training as a voluntary professional development tool to improve equitable outcomes; the bill includes a $750,000 annual appropriation for reimbursements.
Representatives Miller and Brewer presented House Bill 165 to the House Education Committee, proposing that public and participating nonpublic schools be reimbursed for graduate-level implicit‑bias credits or equivalent continuing‑education units taken by educators.
Under the bill sponsors described, the State Board of Education and the Chancellor of Higher Education would set the…
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