INSTRUCTION AND STANDARDS OF LEARNING
INSTRUCTION AND STANDARDS OF LEARNING
HB1183: Home instruction
Requirements for home instruction of children. Provides that an appropriate evaluation that a parent may submit to the division superintendent in order to indicate an adequate level of educational growth and progress includes: (i) an evaluation letter stating that the child is achieving an adequate level of educational growth and progress from a person licensed to teach in any state, or a person with a master's degree or higher in the field of education, having knowledge of the child's academic progress or (ii) a report card or transcript from a community college or college, college distance learning program, or home education correspondence school.
Patron - Lingamfelter
HB97: Instruction, Career and Technical
Advanced technical diploma. Clarifies the diplomas available to students who complete both the requirements for an advanced studies diploma and a concentration in career and technical education.
Patron - Purkey
HB137: Administration, Instruction
Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print and electronic media. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated code. Also provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them. This bill is identical to SB 356.
Patron - Peace
HB242: Instruction, local board policy
Standards of Learning; physical fitness program. Requires local school boards to provide a physical fitness program with a goal of 150 minutes per week for all students.
Patron - O'Bannon
HB246: DOE, instruction
Department of Education; best practices database. Requires the Department of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessments. The database shall be accessible to all local school divisions and the Department of Health, and no school division shall be required to submit information to the database. This bill is identical to SB 61.
Patron - O'Bannon
HB506: Scholarships
Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program. Expands the scholarship program to award scholarships to students in an approved teacher education program leading to an endorsement in career and technical education. This bill is identical to SB 169.
Patron - Hamilton
HB767: Home instruction, policy
Home instruction of children. Eliminates (i) the requirement that correspondence courses must be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to qualify as a suitable program for home instruction and (ii) the provision allowing parents to provide programs that are judged by the division superintendent to include the standards of learning objectives for language arts and mathematics. In addition, the bill allows for the provision of home instruction if the parent provides a program through distance learning or if the parent provides evidence that he is able to provide an adequate education for the child.
Patron - Tata
SB44: Instruction
At-risk students; after school programs. Allows local school boards to establish after school programs for school aged children designed to prevent at-risk youth from engaging in illegal or gang-related activities. Local funds appropriated for educational purposes may be used to support such programs.
Patron - Miller, Y.B.
SB61 Instruction: (HB246)
Department of Education; best practices database. Requires the Department of Education to develop a database of local school divisions' best practices regarding nutrition and physical education, including results of wellness-related fitness assessments. The database shall be accessible to all local school divisions and the Department of Health, and no school division shall be required to submit information to the database. This bill is identical to HB 246.
Patron - Howell
SB169: (HB506)
Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program. Expands the scholarship program to award scholarships to students in an approved teacher education program leading to an endorsement in career and technical education. This bill is identical to HB 506.
Patron - Blevins
SB306: (HB777)
Commission on Civics Education. Extends the sunset provision applicable to the Commission from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2010. This bill is identical to HB 777.
Patron - Reynolds
SB357: (HB241)
Programs and teachers in regional detention homes, agencies, and institutions. Requires the Board of Education to supervise the program of evaluation, education and training provided to school-age children by a teaching hospital associated with the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority. The teaching hospital shall be added to the list of those education and training programs provided by agencies and institutions that the Board is required to supervise. This bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 241.
Patron - Watkins
SB640: Instruction, FLE
Family life education; mental health. Adds mental health education and awareness to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
Patron - Ticer
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