{"id":142541,"date":"2025-05-14T23:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142541"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:23:40","slug":"coleman-bill-empowering-parents-increasing-transparency-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142541","title":{"rendered":"Coleman Bill Empowering Parents, Increasing Transparency Passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG \u2013 The Senate passed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senatorcoleman.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/senatorcoleman.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747344267416000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0CxERMDeNSGEBw6q6FDNAC\">Sen. Jarrett Coleman\u2019s (R-16)<\/a>\u00a0bill today to empower parents and help rebuild the trust between school districts and the families they serve by increasing the reporting requirements about potentially dangerous situations at schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents in a district I represent only found out about a knife being brought to school because one of the parents read a police report about it. One of my constituents called for increased transparency following that egregious occurrence,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cThere is broad agreement from both Republicans and Democrats that schools need to inform parents or guardians and staff about situations that impact the safety of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb246\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb246&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1747344267416000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1MO1kShfa4n2C3HUi94ZTE\">Senate Bill 246<\/a>\u00a0would require parental and employee notification when there is a weapon on any school property that violates its weapons policy, as well as when there are cases of harassment and bullying. The bill would apply to public and nonpublic schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be a much higher level of transparency around weapons brought to schools, harassment and destruction of school property. Schools must be forthcoming when dangerous incidents take place,\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, school districts are not required to inform parents or guardians about incidents when a weapon is brought onto school grounds or to related activities.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous legislative session, the bill received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. The bill moves to the House of Representatives for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nSenate Republican Communications Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG \u2013 The Senate passed\u00a0Sen. Jarrett Coleman\u2019s (R-16)\u00a0bill today to empower parents and help rebuild the trust between school districts and the families they serve by increasing the reporting requirements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=142541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coleman Bill Empowering Parents, Increasing Transparency Passes Senate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/coleman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}