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AN ACT CONCERNING ASSORTED REVISIONS TO THE EDUCATION STATUTES. To (1) require a curriculum on recycling and renewable energy, (2) require new school nurses to complete an orientation, (3) extend the dates by one month by which an annual audit is required of school district receipts, expenditures and statistics and by which the Department of Education posts data from such report, (4) require payments for special education services provided by a private provider to commence from the start of the school year in which such provider is approved by the Department of Education, (5) require the Department of Education to fund the State Education Resource Center, (6) prohibit institutions of higher education from using edTPA scores as a condition of successful completion of a teacher preparation program, (7) require school playgrounds designed after July 1, 2024, to comply with the principles of universal design, (8) require regional boards of education to establish a parent council for each school under its governance, and (9) allow magnet school students to participate in intramural or interscholastic athletics in the school district in which such student resides.