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2012 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Blevins (Chairman), Howell, Locke, Black, Carrico

Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2012
Time and Place: 1/2 hour after adjournment, GAB room 3 West

S.B. 167

Patron: Petersen

Student discipline; parental notification.  Requires the school principal or his designee to notify the parents of any student who violates a school board policy when such violation could result in the student's expulsion.

S.B. 391

Patron: Marsden

Parental notification; student discipline.  Requires parental notification whenever school administrators begin an investigation into a potential violation of any school board policy. Such notification may be made by phone or email, or any other reasonable method, as determined by the school board.

S.B. 438

Patron: Obenshain

Public schools; teacher contract and evaluation policies. Makes several changes to the processes by which teachers and certain administrators are evaluated and retained, including the replacement of continuing contract status with annual contract status for teachers and principals; a mandatory, two-year probationary status for teachers and principals; allowing termination of annual contracts for just cause; requiring that annual evaluations of teachers, principals, and superintendents include student academic progress as a significant factor; and requiring that force-reduction measures consider performance rather than seniority. The bill also defines the standard 10-month contract as 200 days, of which a minimum must be 180 days of instructional time. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2013.

S.B. 580

Patron: Barker

Virtual programs; state funding.  Clarifies that the proportionate share of direct aid for public education provided to local school divisions for students enrolled in full-time virtual programs shall be based on the student's jurisdiction of residence rather than the jurisdiction offering the virtual program.

S.B. 598

Patron: Newman

Public schools; virtual education. Provides that any student who enrolls full time in a virtual school program served by a multidivision online provider outside his school division of residence shall have his state and local share of Standards of Quality per pupil funding transferred from the school division of residence to the enrolling school division. The total state and local share funds transferred from the resident division to the enrolling division shall not exceed $6,500 per pupil. The enrolling school division shall invoice the resident school division monthly and the Department of Education semimonthly for a student participating in a virtual education program.

S.B. 665

Patron: Garrett

Standards of Learning; method of administration.  Allows a local school division to administer any Standards of Learning assessment for elementary school students online or by paper.