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House advances broad education bill, including Holocaust-education reporting and virtual-learning updates

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · May 7, 2024
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Summary

Lawmakers advanced S.167, a miscellaneous education bill that raises the school-construction bid prequalification threshold, updates food-service purchasing rules, delays some school-safety deadlines, mandates a state report on how Holocaust education is taught by Jan. 1, 2026, and clarifies virtual-learning counting and oversight.

The Vermont House reported favorably and proposed amendments to S.167, a miscellaneous education bill that makes a range of technical and substantive changes across education law.Member from Cornwall outlined the strike-all bill section by section. Key provisions include raising the prequalification threshold for school-construction bids from $500,000 to $2,000,000 to reflect…

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