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mijst report incidents involving weapons, drugs or intentional wounding that occur on school property to local law enforcement agencies.
*,'"The matter of safety is a top prioriiy and this applies to that,” Ms. Cotbin-Howerton said. "School [administrators] have generally felt that they should have some discretion over whether or not an incident is reported. Although things of this najure would have usually been reported anyway, this leaves no discretion to the principal.”
»*She attributes this requirement as a inaction to the upswing in violence in jjublic schools.
^Another change in Virginia’s educapon laws concerns a school uniform requirement that previously fell only within the Petersburg and Portsmouth school systems. The revised law allows any school district to mandate th£ students wear uniforms.
T“This is purely a permissive law,” Ccftbin-Howerton said. "The state is noj mandating uniforms, but rather handing that decision over to all of
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