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1998 SESSION
SB 167 Programs designed to promote educational opportunities.
Introduced by: Emily Couric | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Programs designed to promote educational opportunities. Expands four-year-old at-risk preschool programs to cover all eligible students in all schools and revises the statewide voluntary pupil-teacher ratio and class size reduction programs for grades K-3 in schools with high concentrations of at-risk pupils to bring schools with at least 50 percent free lunch participation from the current 18 to one pupil-teacher ratio to a 15 to one ratio and to reduce individual class sizes from 22 to 20 in these schools.
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HISTORY
- 01/14/98 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 982173128
- 01/14/98 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/03/98 Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Public Education
- 02/05/98 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/98 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/12/98 Senate: Continued to 1999 in Finance (16-Y 0-N)