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2007 SESSION
SB 759 Students with Disabilities Tuition Assistance Grant Program; created.
Introduced by: Walter A. Stosch | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Tuition Assistance Grant Program for Students with Disabilities; established. Establishes a tuition assistance grant program for students with disabilities. The program provides grants of no more than $10,000 a year to a Virginia nonsectarian private school of choice for students with disabilities for whom an individual education plan has been written.
The bill requires that in order to receive the grant the following conditions be satisfied: (i) the student has attended a public school in the Commonwealth and has received special education services for at least one year prior to the receipt of the grant; (ii) the parent has obtained acceptance for admission of the student to an eligible private school; (iii) the parent has requested the grant of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and notified the division superintendent of that request; and (iv) the parent has executed and submitted to the division superintendent a written statement asserting his dissatisfaction with the student's progress and acknowledging that the public school has offered or implemented an individualized educational program that is reasonably calculated to provide educational benefit.
The Board of Education is required to promulgate regulations to administer the Grant Program within 280 days of enactment.
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HISTORY
- 12/11/06 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 072317824
- 12/11/06 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/10/07 Senate: Rereferred from Fin. (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/10/07 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 01/11/07 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N)