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2011 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Blevins (Chairman), Howell, Ruff, Locke, Miller, J.C.

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: J.Eades, N.Cheuk
Date of Meeting: January 17, 2011
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjournment - 4th Floor East

S.B. 803

Patron: Lucas

Public schools; physical fitness requirement. Requires at least 150 minutes of physical fitness per week on average for grades K through five and 225 minutes per week on average for grades six through eight during the regular school year, with a similar goal for high school students. Physical fitness may include (i) physical education classes, (ii) extracurricular athletics, or (iii) other programs and physical activities deemed appropriate by the local school board.

S.B. 840

Patron: Petersen

Judicial review of school board decision; aggrieved person.  Provides that, for the purpose of judicial review, any parent, custodian, or legal guardian of a school-age child eligible to attend a school directly affected by an action of the local school board shall presumptively be considered to be aggrieved by such action.

S.B. 934

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Public schools; physical education requirement.  Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through twelve.

S.B. 935

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Healthy lifestyles education.  Requires the Board of Education to develop and approve instructional objectives for healthy lifestyles at the middle and high school levels, which shall be required of all students, and to provide for the systematic infusion of healthy lifestyle principles in the relevant Standards of Learning. The objectives shall include, but not be limited to, nutritional education, emphasizing the benefits of physical activity, and healthy lifestyle choices.

S.B. 966

Patron: Northam

Public schools; physical education requirement. Requires at least 150 minutes of physical education per week on average during the regular school year for grades K through eight, with a similar goal for high school students. This requirement would go into effect beginning with the 2014 -2015 school year.

S.B. 967

Patron: Northam

Family life education. Requires each school division to implement the standards of learning for the family life education program promulgated by the Board of Education, or a family life education program consistent with the guidelines developed by the Board, which shall have the goals of reducing the incidence of pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and substance abuse among teenagers. Any curricula or materials used must be evidence-based and supported by peer reviewed medical research.