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In an echo of last year, opponents of a new Nebraska law appropriating state funds to support scholarships to private schools are trying to partially repeal the law through a

Opponents need to gather 60,000 signatures within the next 80 days to get the issue on the November ballot, which they feel confident about.

LINCOLN - The state teachers union and other advocates for keeping public funds for public schools say they wo...

The state teachers union and other advocates for keeping public funds for public schools say they won’t let supporters of Nebraska’s revamped school choice law sidestep the voters this fall.

Organizers with Support Our Schools filed paperwork Tuesday afternoon with Secretary of State Bob Evnen to put a repeal of LB1402 before voters this fall.

Even though speech, religion, press and assembly usually claim top billing on the First Amendment marquee, the right to petition, to ask for a “redress of grievances,” must remain undiminished. All of which gives me pause when Secretary of State Bob Evnen — as of this writing — is considering whether to pull a referendum […] The post Political calculus aside, listen to petitioners appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.

Opponents line up calling it

LINCOLN — When Millard North High School junior Janae Harris was in second grade, she read to a kindergarten class but kept getting stuck on words. The teacher continually corrected her, Janae said, and told her she “needed to learn how to read” before she read to another class. “I was embarrassed, and to this day […]

 

Testimony was divided Tuesday on a bill that would allow Nebraska school boards to adopt policies authorizing certain staff to carry firearms on school grounds.