{"id":30410,"date":"2021-05-19T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30410"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:35:32","slug":"earlier-transition-services-for-students-with-disabilities-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30410","title":{"rendered":"Earlier transition services for students with disabilities approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska public schools will provide transition services to each student with a developmental disability two years sooner under a bill passed by lawmakers May 19.<figure id=\"attachment_20164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20164\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20164\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303110&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;110&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senwalz_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lynne Walz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lynne Walz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Lynne Walz\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWalz_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Lynne Walz<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n<p>Schools are required to provide a coordinated set of activities that help prepare qualified students for life after high school \u2014 including postsecondary education, vocational training, integrated employment, continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living and community participation.<\/p>\n<p>Under LB527, sponsored by Fremont Sen. Lynne Walz, schools will provide transition services to those students beginning when they turn 14 rather than 16.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a vote of 48-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska public schools will provide transition services to each student with a developmental disability two years sooner under a bill passed by lawmakers May 19. <\/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":[182],"class_list":["post-30410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-lynne-walz"],"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\/30410","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=30410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30416,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30410\/revisions\/30416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}