Conservatives in Nebraska have made bold moves to secure control of the state’s education system, citing a desire to push through one of new Gov. Jim Pillen’s priorities of reforming the state education funding. But the list of bills sought by conservatives is also rife with proposals that mirror the Republican Party’s focus on issues seen in GOP-led states across the country that particularly affect schools and students. The Nebraska bills include those to fund a private school voucher program, ease the way to ban books from school library shelves and require transgender people to use school bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex listed on their original birth certificate.
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