LINCOLN- Sen. Lynne Walz, a member of the Legislature's Education Committee, hailed the advancement of LB1284 from the committee, a package of nine bills geared toward training teachers in reading instruction, computer science and technology, dyslexia research, and special education.

"We, as the Education Committee, just put together a package of bills that will really provide good solutions for kiddos, for families, for people who may be going into the teacher profession," Walz said. The State Board of Education is in favor of nearly every bill in the package, having appeared in a neutral capacity on just LB985.

A tenth bill, Sen. Danielle Conrad's LB1050, is being considered for the package. LB1050 would require schools to provide access to menstrual products in school bathrooms, an endeavor that advocates say would reduce "Period Poverty" in the state. The committee voted 4-1 to advance the bill, falling just one vote short of placing it on the floor of the Legislature for broader debate.

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