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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 24, 2011
Time and Place: Monday, 1/2 hr. after Senate adj., 4 E Conf. Rm, Gen. Assembly Bl

S.B. 946 School buses; installation of vidio-monitoring systems thereon by school divisions.

Patron: Howell

Video-monitoring system; school bus violations. Authorizes local school divisions to install and operate video-monitoring systems on school buses in order to detect drivers passing stopped school buses.

S.B. 967 Family life education; requires school division to implement standards of learning program.

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.

S.B. 1094 Youth health risk survey; Department of Health to develop annually of students in public schools.

Patron: Hanger

Youth health risk survey.  Requires the Department of Health to develop and administer an annual random survey of students in public middle and high schools to facilitate planning and implementation of effective programs for substance abuse prevention through collection of information identifying trends in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and the assessment of risk and protective factors among youth of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that a student shall not be required to participate if his parents refuse consent in writing prior to administration of the survey, and requires local school boards to develop policies for the notification of parents of students selected for participation in the survey.

S.B. 1320 Charter schools; allows employees to choose whether to participate in Virginia Retirement System.

Patron: Obenshain

Charter schools; employees.  Allows public charter school employees to choose whether to participate in the Virginia Retirement System and specifies that they are not party to any existing collective bargaining agreement.  Also allows only 75 percent of public charter elementary school teachers to be licensed, 50 percent of public charter middle and high school teachers to be licensed, and specifies that all teachers be otherwise be highly qualified, as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.