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2009 SESSION
SJ 313 Public schools; JLARC to study ways to promote and ensure early reading proficiency.
Introduced by: John C. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Study; early reading proficiency and comprehension; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission 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.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/09 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 098396275 pdf
- 01/30/09 Senate: Committee substitute printed 097312275-S1 pdf
HISTORY
- 01/12/09 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 098396275
- 01/12/09 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/26/09 Senate: Assigned Rules sub: Studies
- 01/30/09 Senate: Reported from Rules with substitute by voice vote
- 01/30/09 Senate: Committee substitute printed 097312275-S1
- 02/02/09 Senate: Reading waived (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/09 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/09 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/09 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 097312275-S1
- 02/03/09 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SJ313S1
- 02/04/09 Senate: Read third time
- 02/04/09 Senate: Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
- 02/11/09 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/11/09 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/16/09 House: Assigned Rules sub: Studies
- 02/19/09 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- 02/28/09 House: Left in Rules