Lawmakers have passed legislation requiring schools to reopen during the pandemic and are proposing an extended summer school to help students who have fallen behind during months of online classes. Elsewhere, the legislature has gutted its nonpartisan Program Evaluation Division, and the state Department of Health and Human Services was blistered in a state audit over not checking whether Medicaid providers were qualified to treat patients.

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