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By: Olympia Meola
Published: March 11, 2010 2:39 PM
The House of Delegates just approved Gov. Bob McDonnell’s education reform bills from the Senate, but only after rejecting floor amendments proposed by Democrats trying to tack non-discrimination clauses onto them.
Keeping the sexual orientation anti-bias issue in the spotlight, Del. David L. Englin, D-Alexandria, proposed to add onto McDonnell’s legislation, which would strengthen the role of the State Board of Education in the charter application process and create an appeals process for applicants.
House Democrats have been urging McDonnell to send down a bill or support their legislative efforts to add sexual orientation anti-discrimination protections to state law. Instead, McDonnell yesterday issued a memo strengthening anti-bias protections for gay state employees.
The governor declared that as head of the government work force, he will not tolerate bias on the basis of sexual orientation and he threatened to fire offenders.
This afternoon, Englin wanted to add language to the charter school bill stipulating that students and faculty would have anti-bias protections, including on sexual orientation.
“While the governor’s memo that he issued yesterday was a small step the right direction, it does not carry the force of law
so the goal here is in a key area of public policy ... to include in that policy as one of the criteria for accepting a charter, that the applicant present such a policy,” he said.
The proposed amendment was killed by a voice vote after one of the bill’s sponsors in the House, Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter, R-Prince William, reminded Democrats that he agreed to not amend the bill in response to their concerns.
Del. Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria, then tried to tack a similar anti-bias clause to McDonnell’s bill to create a framework for approving virtual school providers. That amendment failed as well.
McDonnell’s third education bill, which would create a path to open college partnership lab schools, also passed.
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