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Bill overhauling sex ed curriculum dies in Senate
A bill overhauling Nevada's sex education curriculum has died in the state Senate. AB230 was taken off a roster of bills to be voted upon Friday. The bill faced a midnight deadline to survive. The bill would have set up a state council to determine criteria to be covered by ...
Wis. gov expects compromise on voucher school plan
Republican Gov. Scott Walker says he expects GOP leaders will reach some sort of compromise on a contentious section of his budget that would expand private school vouchers next week. The voucher program subsidizes students' private school tuition. It's currently in effect in Milwaukee and Racine. Walker's budget would expand ...
Quinn signs moratorium on online charter schools
Virtual charter schools in Illinois are being placed on temporary hold. Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday signed legislation placing a one-year moratorium on any new online charter schools in Illinois districts outside of Chicago. The State Charter School Commission must also submit a report on virtual schooling by March 1 ...
Wis. lawyer wants car dealers to oppose bill
Wisconsin's Lemon Law King is trying to rally dealers against a Republican bill that would relax car buyer protection statutes. The bill would revise the Wisconsin's lemon law to erase mandatory consumer damage awards and give manufacturers more time to deliver a replacement vehicle or refund. Attorney Vince Megna, who ...
La. senators urged to fund education, health care
People who rely on the state for health care and education pleaded Friday with senators to keep those programs off the chopping block in next year's $25 billion budget, in what has become an annual struggle to stave off cuts to services amid the state's financial problems. The Senate Finance ...
Bill puts extra information on mammogram reports
Some Nevada lawmakers say doctors should tell women with dense breast tissue that mammogram results are inconclusive, but some doctors say there's no need. Democratic Assemblyman James Ohrenschall of Las Vegas is behind AB147. It requires doctors to include a statement about a patient's breast density and the possibility of ...
Graham named chairman of House Education Committee
Democratic state Rep. Derrick Graham has been named chairman of the House Education Committee. Graham, a retired teacher from Frankfort, replaces former state Rep. Carl Rollins who resigned to lead the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority and the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corp. House Speaker Greg Stumbo announced the ...
Bill preventing UNC opposite-sex housing returns
A bill blocking a University of North Carolina policy allowing students to choose roommates of the opposite sex has found new life in the state Senate budget. The proposal was inserted in the $20.6 billion plan approved this week. It seeks to prevent a UNC-Chapel Hill policy giving students the ...
NH Senate budget panel making spending decisions
The New Hampshire Senate's budget committee voted Friday to require hospitals to participate in a managed care network by July 1 if they want state compensation for charity care. The Finance Committee is making its final spending adjustments to its $10.7 billion two-year state spending plan in hopes of wrapping ...
Child abuse investigator fired after boy's death
Florida child welfare officials fired an investigator who they said forged documents about substance-abuse treatment for a mother six months before her 11-month old baby died in a sweltering car. Catalina Bruno is accused of leaving her son Bryan Osceola, along with her purse and a can of beer, in ...
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