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By VALARIE THORPE
Capital Newi Service
RICHMOND — Many of the newlv-enacted education laws emphasize personal safety by applying tough punitive measures, but not all of the& were Virginia lawmakers’ ideas.
For instance, to comply with a new federal mandate, school boards must expel students for at least one year if they are caught with a firearm in school. But there’s also an exception: the school superintendent can step in and change the expulsion.
“This law was necessary so that Virginia was in accordance with the federal gun-free school act and to continue to receive federal money,” said Lin Corbin-Howerton, policy analyst and legislative coordinator for the Virginia Department of Education. “Hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake.
;~It’s been questioned whether or not Congress was within their rights to pass that law. I think the main thing people were concerned about was the zero tolerance in this bill. We’re talking second-graders, third-graders — anybody would have to miss at least 365 days.”
In addition, school principals now
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