Education Committee Package Advances at Legislature

The Education Committee's package of measures contained in LB 937 advanced at the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday. District 38 Senator Dave Murman brought forth the package. Read the complete story from the Unicameral Update here.

As part of the package was District 33 Senator Dan Lonowski's LB 1164. 

LB 937 seeks to provide the following changes to clean up various education statutes by:
• Harmonizing the current practice of including the number of approved option enrollment applications on
the Nebraska Department of Education’s (NDE) option enrollment report; and
• Eliminating obsolete language no longer relevant to current NDE practice; and 
• Providing language to ensure teachers who become eligible to teach dual enrollment courses qualify for
the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act high-need retention grant; and
• Improves dyslexia data collection related to the Reading Improvement Act; and
• Changes the date for the required Property Tax Request Authority report; and
• Changes language in the College Pathway Program to better align with procurement processes; and 
• Changes the date for the NDE Annual Census Report.

The bill advanced 34-3.