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Bill to mandate in-person learning faces pushback from Virginia House Republican leaders
5 minutes Posted Feb 16, 2021 at 4:00 pm.
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A bipartisan bill to mandate an in-person learning option is facing pushback from Republican leadership in the Virginia House. “This is the bill that speaks to opening schools,” said the legislation’s sponsor, Virginia state Senator Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico), when she presented it Monday in the Education Subcommittee for the House of Delegates. The bill has already passed the full Senate, and it took one step closer to reaching the house floor for a vote when it advanced out of the subcommittee early Monday morning with bipartisan support. House Republican leaders, however, spoke out against the bill after the meeting, making...

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