This is not about Speaker Black. This is about what is in the best interest of children.

The eye-exam language creates a financial barrier to enter the public-school system and may bar some children from exercising their constitutional right to attend school.

We really didn't understand the full implications of how this written and what it would do.

There would have to be legislation passed by the General Assembly allowing for that transfer.

School-board members and superintendents are very upset about this provision.

They're just imagining that our principals are going to be standing at the schoolhouse door the first day of school, telling kids they can't come to school.