Monday, March 29, 2010

Update from the Legislative Session

This weekend legislators considered two bills that "involve floating general  finance obligations bond issues to finance certain repair and renovation projects at state-owned facilities, to fund highway and bridge improvement projects and to bring new jobs through economic developments." These two bonds together will equal $600 million in specific projects. 
Other bills under discussion were HB1043 creating new start schools by helping schools that have showed no improvement. HB1047 studying teacher attrition, retention, and professional growth, and HB1097 requiring the state to provide technical assistance to schools not meeting state standards.
The bill I found to be the best piece of legislation was SB2015 prohibiting bullying behavior in schools. This is an important piece of legislation because kids who bully grow up to be adults that bully through dominating others with intimidation. If children are taught more appropriate ways of dealing with their own fears maybe the world would be a more pleasant place.
(The information for this post was taken from a weekly housekeeping report sent to me by Rep. Shaun Walley.)
Michelle Mersdorf
President-GCRW

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