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2012 SESSION
Blevins (Chairman), Howell, Locke, Black, Carrico
Clerk: Patty Lung, Jocelyn Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Ellen Porter
Date of Meeting: February 20, 2012
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjourment - 3rd Floor West
Patron: McClellan
Board of Education; publication of disciplinary offense and outcome data. Requires the Board of Education to annually publish disciplinary offense and outcome data by race, ethnicity, gender, and disability for each public school in the Commonwealth on its website.
Patron: Bell, Richard P.
Online courses; teacher licensure. Requires the Board of Education to develop licensure criteria for teachers who teach only online courses. The bill also provides that teachers who hold a Board issued five-year renewable license may teach online courses for which they are properly endorsed.
Patron: Alexander
Chronic school absenteeism and truancy. Requires the Board of Education to promulgate regulations by July 1, 2013, to address truancy. In promulgating these regulations, the Board shall address the following: (i) provisions for early intervention at the school level for repeated unexcused absences; (ii) identification of and a plan to address a student's academic, social, familial, and other barriers that impede attendance in school; and (iii) arrangement of conferences that may be necessary between school personnel, students, parents, and community services providers, as appropriate, to address plans and strategies to improve student attendance, including but not limited to, referrals to family assessment and planning teams.