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Nonprofit Vision to Learn asks legislature to allow school nurses or mail delivery to give students their glasses
Summary
Vision to Learn told the Public Health Committee (HB5514) that technical rules prevent opticians from leaving completed eyeglasses with school nurses or mailing them to families; the nonprofit asked the legislature to permit authorized representatives (school nurses) or mailing as alternate dispensing methods to avoid leaving hundreds of unclaimed completed glasses.
Vision to Learn, a national nonprofit that provides no‑cost vision screenings, on‑site eye exams and prescription eyeglasses at Title‑I schools, urged the Public Health Committee to change state rules that prevent completed eyeglasses from being entrusted to a school nurse or mailed to the family when a student is absent on the day of dispensing.
Damian Carroll described the program model: screening at school, on‑site comprehensive exams and then return visits to dispense frames…
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