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Senate Education Committee weighs clarifications to therapeutic-school moratorium and other technical fixes
Summary
Committee members reviewed language clarifying that a moratorium on new approved independent therapeutic schools should not bar the sale and continued operation of existing therapeutic independent schools; they also discussed rejoining the Education Commission of the States, syncing class-size rulemaking with statute, and agency background-check authority.
The Senate Education Committee reviewed a package of technical changes to an education bill that would clarify how a moratorium on approving new independent therapeutic schools applies, restore formal membership in the Education Commission of the States, align class-size rulemaking with statutory timelines and address agency authority to run background checks for contractors.
Peter Conlin, the bill’s reporter, told members the moratorium provision is intended to ‘‘clarify that that moratorium was not to apply to the sale of an existing therapeutic independent school’’ and not to…
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