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SJ 61 Public schools; joint subcommittee to study ways to promote reading proficiency & comprehension.

Introduced by: John C. Miller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Study; early reading proficiency and comprehension; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study ways to promote and ensure early reading proficiency and comprehension among third graders in public schools. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) determine the number of third graders who read at grade level; (ii) rank the school divisions according to the number of third graders who passed the most recent third grade reading test; (iii) identify best practices utilized by school divisions with the highest percentage of third graders who read at grade level; (iv) examine the findings and recommendations of state and national studies pertaining to the efficacy of early reading proficiency and comprehension and its relationship to academic success, and recommend those recommendations appropriate for implementation in Virginia; and (v) determine strategies to increase the number of third graders who pass the third grade reading test and ways to improve and sustain the early reading proficiency of third grade students. The joint subcommittee must submit its findings and recommendations to the 2009 Session of the General Assembly.


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HISTORY

  • 01/08/08  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 084193275
  • 01/08/08  Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
  • 01/25/08  Senate: Reported from Rules with amendments by voice vote
  • 01/28/08  Senate: Reading waived (40-Y 0-N)
  • 01/29/08  Senate: Read second time
  • 01/29/08  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
  • 01/29/08  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
  • 01/29/08  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SJ61E
  • 01/29/08  Senate: Printed as engrossed 084193275-E
  • 01/30/08  Senate: Read third time
  • 01/30/08  Senate: Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
  • 01/30/08  Senate: Communicated to House
  • 02/11/08  House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/11/08  House: Referred to Committee on Rules
  • 03/03/08  House: Left in Rules