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Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -
Ohio schools no longer have to
gather body-mass index measurements, just two years after a state law required
the screenings.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that state lawmakers in
June decided to make BMI screenings optional. Only some districts complied with
the law, and some of those have decided to drop the practice.
State Sen. Tim Schaffer, a Lancaster Republican who
proposed the change, said the screenings had started to draw educational
resources from the schools.
The aim of the 2010 law was better health monitoring.
It required districts to gather the BMIs of students in kindergarten and first,
third, fifth and ninth grades.
The screenings were used to let parents know whether their
children fell in the underweight, healthy weight, overweight or obese range.
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