A bill that would stop schools from punishing or prohibiting employees engaging in religious expression outside of class went in front of the state legislature’s Education Committee on Monday.
LINCOLN — When Millard North High School junior Janae Harris was in second grade, she read to a kindergarten class but kept getting stuck on words. The teacher continually corrected her, Janae said, and told her she “needed to learn how to read” before she read to another class. “I was embarrassed, and to this day […]
LINCOLN — The next front in Nebraska’s school choice fight could shift toward a proposal by State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair under which the state would deposit $1,500 a year per student into a new type of state-managed savings account for parents and guardians of students attending private K-12 schools. Using the language of […]
One proposal would add Nebraska to an agreement creating a multistate licensure for school psychologists, while the other would allow schools to be reimbursed for hiring those professionals.