{"id":29834,"date":"2021-03-29T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29834"},"modified":"2021-03-29T12:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:07:48","slug":"purple-star-designation-for-military-friendly-schools-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29834","title":{"rendered":"Purple star designation for military friendly schools advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nebraska schools that take measures to welcome military-connected students would receive a special designation under a bill advanced from the first round of debate March 29.

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Sen. Carol Blood<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Under LB5, introduced by Bellevue Sen. Carol Blood, a public, private or parochial school could apply to the State Board of Education for an annual \u201cpurple star school\u201d designation. <\/p>\n

Blood said the voluntary program would make school transitions easier for military-connected students and allow Nebraska schools to promote themselves as friendly to military families. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of recognition can be beneficial for the community at large \u2026 [and] can bring a sense of pride to that municipality,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

To qualify, a school would have to designate a staff member as a military liaison, who would serve as a school\u2019s point of contact for military-connected students and their families. Among other duties, the liaison would identify military-connected students and assist in coordinating school programs relevant to them. <\/p>\n

Among other criteria, a qualifying school must offer online resources for military-connected students and their families, maintain a student-led program to assist military-connected students in transitioning into the school and offer training for staff members on issues related to military-connected students.<\/p>\n

Senators voted 44-0 to advance the bill to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nebraska schools that take measures to welcome military-connected students would receive a special designation under a bill advanced from the first round of debate March 29.<\/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":[179],"class_list":["post-29834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-carol-blood"],"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\/29834","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=29834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29836,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions\/29836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}