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HJ 183 Certain Standards of Accreditation issues.

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Certain Standards of Accreditation issues. Requests the Board of Education to consider the English as a Second Language/Limited English Proficiency (ESL/LEP) issues in revising the Standards of Accreditation, particularly those issues relating to the requirements for obtaining a high school diploma. This resolution transmits some suggestions made to the Commission to Study Educational Issues Involving Students for Whom English is a Second Language or Students who Have Limited English Proficiency. Some of these suggestions were to (i) allow ESL/LEP students who have completed a course for which verified credit is awarded to be granted a verified credit for such course if satisfactorily completely in their first or primary language; (ii) provide assessments to ESL/LEP students that are designed to measure the students' knowledge, rather than their English skills and understanding of complex language nuances; and (iii) consider the issues generally applicable to transfer students and others vis-a-vis ESL/LEP students, particularly those students coming into Virginia's public school system who, through no fault of their own, have previously had little formal education in their first or primary language.


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