WA Dems propose excused absences for student protests
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(The Center Square) - Two House Democrats proposed a bill on Thursday to provide excused absences upon advanced request for Washington state public school students protesting on the taxpayers’ dime. Rep. Osman Salahuddin, D-Redmond, and Rep. Greg Nance, D-Bainbridge Island, filed House Bill 2732 as students across the state walked out of class to protest federal immigration enforcement. State law currently allows schools to treat this as an excused absence, but they can’t do much else to intervene.