Kentucky's special session on COVID-19 starts today.
A working draft of an education-specific bill shared with me would end the Ky. Board of Ed's mask mandate for public schools.
A non-NTI "remote learning" category would be created.
Districts could assign individual schools, grades, classes or groups of students to remote learning but could not go longer than necessary to alleviate student and staff absences.
Districts would get up to 20 remote days.
Districts could NOT assign all students in the district to remote learning, so this wouldn't be a NTI shutdown type of thing.
The working draft, again a *draft*, does not offer additional NTI days.
Hello from Frankfort! The Administrative Regulation Review subcommittee is meeting at 10 a.m. to review KDE’s recent mask mandate for public schools.
About 10 people are protesting the mandate outside.
Mask-wearing is mixed inside the Capitol Annex. Most lawmakers, journalists and members of Ky.'s Student Voice team are masked up. Several others are not.
The subcommittee is reviewing this emergency reg from the Ky. Dept. of Ed, which the Ky. Board of Ed unanimously approved Thursday.
It would require masks in public schools for up to 270 days, which is the timeline outlined in state law for emer. regs.