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Bipartisan bill to require in-person learning full-time advances in the Virginia House of Delegates
4 minutes Posted Feb 23, 2021 at 5:00 pm.
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The Education Committee in the Virginia House of Delegates advanced legislation Feb. 22 that will require school districts to offer in-person learning to K-12 students five-days-a-week. If it passes in the Senate and Governor Ralph Northam signs it, the requirement would not take effect until July 1, making it largely symbolic for the current school year. “This is a safe way for us to do the most important thing,” the bill’s original sponsor Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico) said Monday when addressing the committee. She stressed that she believes getting kids back in school is the most important issue for the...

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