{"id":21233,"date":"2017-03-23T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21233"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:05:15","slug":"protection-for-teachers-religious-rights-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21233","title":{"rendered":"Protection for teachers\u2019 religious rights passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill March 23 that protects the right of a public school teacher to wear religious dress or garb in the classroom.<figure id=\"attachment_20159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20159\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20159\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senscheer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jim Scheer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jim Scheer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jim Scheer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenScheer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jim Scheer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>LB62, introduced by Norfolk Sen. Jim Scheer, repeals a law prohibiting public school teachers from wearing religious garments at school. School boards currently are required to suspend for one year any teacher in violation of the laws and termination of employment is required after a second violation. <\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 39-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill March 23 that protects the right of a public school teacher to wear religious dress or garb in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-21233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-jim-scheer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21239,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions\/21239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}