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SB 479 Standards of Quality in public schools; changes in provisions.
Introduced by: H. Russell Potts, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Standards of Quality. Reorganizes the Standards of Quality and makes substantive amendments that would (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iii) require five elementary resource positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade five for art, music, and physical education; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require one full-time reading specialist for each 1,000 students in average daily membership; (vii) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12
The Board of Education proposed and approved these changes on June 25, 2003. Because the Virginia Constitution grants the General Assembly "ultimate authority" over educational policy and provides that the Standards are to be "prescribed from time to time by the Board of Education" but are subject to revision "only by the General Assembly," legislation is necessary to enact the Board's proposals.
The bill includes a second enactment clause providing that any new Standard of Quality incorporated into the bill shall not become effective unless an appropriation for the standard is included in the 2004-2006 Appropriation Act. The measure also includes a number of technical and editorial changes and is identical to HB 1014.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 043757112 pdf | impact statement
- 02/13/04 Senate: Printed as engrossed 043757112-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/25/04 House: Committee substitute printed 048712788-H1 pdf
- 03/15/04 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB479ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/23/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0939) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 043757112
- 01/14/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/29/04 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/04 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/11/04 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/04 Senate: Read second time
- 02/13/04 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/13/04 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/13/04 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB479E
- 02/13/04 Senate: Printed as engrossed 043757112-E
- 02/16/04 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/04 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/19/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/19/04 House: Read first time
- 02/19/04 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/25/04 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/04 House: Committee substitute printed 048712788-H1
- 02/26/04 House: Read second time
- 02/27/04 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/01/04 House: Read third time
- 03/01/04 House: Committee substitute agreed to 048712788-H1
- 03/01/04 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB479H1
- 03/01/04 House: Passed House with substitute (79-Y 20-N)
- 03/01/04 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (79-Y 20-N)
- 03/03/04 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/04 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/15/04 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/15/04 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB479ER)
- 03/16/04 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/17/04 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/15/04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 939 (effective 7/1/04)
- 04/23/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0939)