{"id":34502,"date":"2023-05-30T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34502"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:26:24","slug":"education-package-that-includes-lottery-allocations-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34502","title":{"rendered":"Education package that includes lottery allocations approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill distributing state lottery funds to education programs received final approval from lawmakers May 30.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24411\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24411\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114181&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenMurman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24411\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dave Murman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dave Murman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB705, introduced by Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil, allocates lottery funds to a number of new and existing education programs for fiscal year 2024-25 through FY2028-29, including behavioral awareness training for school personnel and grants for teachers seeking qualification to teach dual-credit courses.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was amended to include provisions of more than 20 other education-related measures, including a grant program intended to recruit and retain teachers and another to fund security-related infrastructure projects for school buildings.<\/p>\n<p>LB705 also prohibits Nebraska elementary schools from suspending students in kindergarten through second grade, creates a program intended to help small schools cover large, unexpected special education expenses and requires school districts to adopt specific capacity standards for acceptance and rejection of option enrollment applications.<\/p>\n<p>LB705 passed on a vote of 47-0 and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill distributing state lottery funds to education programs received final approval from lawmakers May 30.<\/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":[255],"class_list":["post-34502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-dave-murman"],"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\/34502","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=34502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34504,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions\/34504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}