Senator Clark’s school-choice nondiscrimination bill pulled for 수정 to address athletic recruiting
Senate Bill 400 would bar schools from denying extracurricular participation to students who transfer in exercising school choice. Sponsor Alan Clark agreed to pull the bill for amendments after athletic-recruitment concerns were raised by several members and the Arkansas Activity Association.
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Senator Alan Clark introduced Senate Bill 400, saying the measure would prevent schools from denying students participation in extracurricular activities when a family exercises school choice. Clark described cases in which students were told they could not play sports after transferring and said the bill ‘‘simply says that if you exercise school choice ... you can change and not worry about being penalized.’’
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