The Senate Committee on Education K-16 has scheduled a hearing for 11 a.m. (or upon adjournment of the Senate) on Tuesday, March 4, to hear testimony on the following bills.
SB 10 (King, et al.) would require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in each classroom.
SB 11 (Middleton, et al.) would allow a public school district’s board of trustees to adopt a resolution requiring campuses to provide students and employees with an opportunity to participate in a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text on each school day.
SB 569 (Bettencourt, et al.) relates to the provision of virtual education in public schools and to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee.
