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Kansas Senate passes bill easing prosecution of teachers for distributing ‘harmful material’ [View all]
The hits just keep on coming... 
By Bryan Lowry - The Kansas City Star
A bill making it easier to prosecute teachers and school administrators for distributing materials deemed harmful to minors passed the Kansas Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 56, which passed 26-14, removes a provision from current statute that protects schools against such prosecution. It keeps the protection in place for universities, museums and libraries.
Opponents say the bill would allow teachers to be prosecuted for teaching controversial works of literature or about human biology.
Sen. Tom Hawk, a Manhattan Democrat and a former school administrator, said that as a lifelong educator, he could not support the bill, which he viewed as having a chilling effect on teachers.
But supporters said the bill is necessary to ensure kids are protected from pornography at school and that teachers would not be prosecuted for teaching works of literary or scientific value.
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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11212511.html#storylink=cpy
A bill making it easier to prosecute teachers and school administrators for distributing materials deemed harmful to minors passed the Kansas Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 56, which passed 26-14, removes a provision from current statute that protects schools against such prosecution. It keeps the protection in place for universities, museums and libraries.
Opponents say the bill would allow teachers to be prosecuted for teaching controversial works of literature or about human biology.
Sen. Tom Hawk, a Manhattan Democrat and a former school administrator, said that as a lifelong educator, he could not support the bill, which he viewed as having a chilling effect on teachers.
But supporters said the bill is necessary to ensure kids are protected from pornography at school and that teachers would not be prosecuted for teaching works of literary or scientific value.
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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11212511.html#storylink=cpy
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