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Education - Public Schools - Instruction in Print and Cursive Handwriting

Sponsor: J.B. Jennings (District 7)Committee: Education, Health, and Environmental AffairsSubject: Primary and Secondary EducationStatus: Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (as of Sep 19, 2019)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Requiring, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, each county board of education to require each public elementary school in the county to provide handwriting instruction that enables students to develop legible print handwriting by the end of the third grade and legible cursive handwriting by the end of the fifth grade.

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