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Senate Education clears a slate of technical and teacher‑support bills in one session
Summary
In a single hearing the committee passed several technical and teacher-focused measures — code cleanups, weighted‑credit rules, teacher assessment and licensure changes, background‑check technical fixes, SUCCEED scholarship eligibility updates, and a National Guard tuition technical fix.
The Senate Education Committee moved a series of largely technical and teacher‑support bills through the committee in a single, extended session.
Key committee actions included:
- Accountability/code cleanup: Johnny Key of the Department of Education described a cleanup bill to update references to the Every Student Succeeds Act, remove an obsolete benchmark-testing reference, and repeal a duplicate NSL report requirement; the committee moved and passed the measure.
- House Bill 1416: Sponsor described a technical correction removing an…
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