Public Notices of Upcoming Rule Hearings
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STATE OF NEBRASKA)
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LANCASTER COUNTY)
NOTICE OF RULE-MAKING HEARING
NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
NOTICE is hereby given that the Department of Education will hold a videoconference rule-making hearing at six sites on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, commencing at 10:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 a.m. Mountain Time) on revisions to Title 92, Nebraska Administrative Code, Chapter 10 (Rule 10), Regulations and Procedures for the Accreditation of Schools. Testimony will be received at: Grand Island Vocational Rehabilitation Office, 3335 W. Capital Avenue, Grand Island, NE; Lincoln Executive Building, 521 S. 14th Street, Suite 103, Lincoln, NE; Northeast Community College, MaClay Building, Room 167A, Norfolk, NE; ESU #16, Distance Learning Room, 1221 W. 17th Street, North Platte, NE; Omaha State Office Building, 1313 Farnam on the Mall, 2nd floor, Conf Rm. #207, Omaha, NE; and, University of Nebraska Panhandle Education Center, 4502 Avenue I, High Plains Room, Scottsbluff, NE.
The PURPOSE of the proposed revisions to Rule 10 (Regulations and Procedures for the Accreditation of Schools) is to add language to require a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. Participation of students in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance shall be voluntary.
The FISCAL IMPACT statement may be obtained and inspected at the Office of the Nebraska Department of Education.
This hearing is being conducted under the provisions of Section 84-907 R.R.S., 1943, which provides that a DRAFT COPY OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS AVAILABLE for public examination at the Nebraska Department of Education and at the Office of the Secretary of State, State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska. A copy of the hearing draft for this Rule is also available on the Nebraska Department of Education’s webpage at: http://www.nde.state.ne.us/LEGAL/drafts.html
All INTERESTED PERSONS are invited to ATTEND and TESTIFY at the location of the hearing. Interested persons also may submit written comments to the Nebraska Department of Education prior to the hearing, and those comments will be made a part of the hearing record at the time of the hearing.
Dated at Lincoln, Nebraska this 3rd day of May, 2012.
Nebraska Department of Education
Roger D. Breed, Ed.D., Commissioner of Education