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‘Give them a voice:’ Bill seeks cameras in Nevada’s special education classrooms to protect nonverbal kids

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Special education students would be protected by the presence of cameras in their classrooms, parents testified Monday as the Nevada Senate Education Committee heard details of a new proposal.

Senate Bill 158 (SB158) would mandate video surveillance cameras during instruction hours in special education classrooms statewide. It’s a sensitive subject for people concerned about privacy — but that privacy has been a shield for abuse in classrooms, parents told the committee on Monday in Carson City.

Yesenia Gonzales, the mother of an autistic student in Las Vegas, said the legislation would protect the “most vulnerable” students.

“SB158 would give them a voice when an incident occurs as many are unfortunately unable to speak due to being nonverbal and having difficulty expressing,” Gonzales said in testimony from Las Vegas.

Kansas school voucher bill tied to teacher pay increases, SPED funding

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Kansas House Republicans on Monday advanced a deeply controversial bill that could reshape the state’s public-private K-12 education system but not before attaching a few items that, for years, have been on Democrats’ wish-list for schools.

The House K-12 Education Budget Committee on Monday worked and advanced SB 83. Originally a Senate Education Committee bill on expansion of tax credit scholarships for low-income students, the House committee “gutted” the contents of SB 83 and replaced with them with HB 2218, which would create a voucher-like education savings account program.

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Dubbed the Sunflower Education Equity Act, the law would allow Kansas families to use taxpayer dollars to pay for non-public educational expenses, such as private school or other academic services and materials.

The families would receive 95% of the per-pupil funding their student would have otherwise receive if

Iowa bill pushes to halt ‘woke agenda’ in state universities, eliminate DEI spending, lawmaker says

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A bill progressing through the Iowa House of Representatives would halt a “woke agenda” in the state’s colleges by banning diversity, equity and inclusion spending, the legislation’s sponsor said.

“For too long, the DEI bureaucracies at our institutions of higher education have been used to push a woke agenda on the faculty, staff and students,” Iowa state Rep. Taylor Collins told Fox News. “Under the guise of diversity and inclusion, these programs work to indoctrinate students into their preferred political ideology.”

House File 616, which passed a House committee last week, would prohibit the state’s public universities from spending money on DEI offices or on employees working in positions centered around race, gender identity or sexual orientation. Courses, research, student organizations and guest speakers on those topics, however, would still be allowed.

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‘Give them a voice:’ Bill seeks cameras in Nevada’s special education classrooms to protect nonverbal kids

Kansas school voucher bill tied to teacher pay increases, SPED funding

Iowa bill pushes to halt ‘woke agenda’ in state universities, eliminate DEI spending, lawmaker says