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2003 SESSION
HB 2021 Elementary school teachers; planning time.
Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Elementary school teachers; planning time. Directs school boards to ensure that all elementary school teachers are provided at least one unencumbered planning period during the students' school week. The Commonwealth will bear the cost of the planning period, as provided in the appropriation act.
Currently, the law directs school boards to "seek to ensure" that elementary school teachers receive at least three hours' planning time each week; the Standards of Accreditation (SOA) (8 VAC 20-131-230) provide middle school teachers with more than 25 class periods a week with one period of "unencumbered" class period daily; similarly, full-time high school teachers must receive "one class period each day, unencumbered by supervisory or teaching duties...for instructional planning." No similar requirement is stated for elementary school teachers. In addition, the SOA direct schools to report "the extent to which an unencumbered lunch is provided for all classroom teachers."
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- 01/08/03 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/07/03 035921627
- 01/08/03 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/20/03 House: Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/03 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/22/03 House: Tabled in Appropriations (24-Y 1-N)