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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

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

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: January 14, 2013
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour after adjournment - 3rd Floor East

S.B. 782

Patron: McEachin

Standards of Accreditation. Adds high school graduation rates, the rate of student academic progress in all student subgroups identified pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, P.L. 89-10, as amended, and progress toward narrowing gaps in student proficiency on Standards of Learning assessments among all student subgroups to the list of special school division accomplishments that the Board of Education shall consider in its criteria for recognizing educational performance. The bill also prohibits the Board from identifying a school as fully accredited if any such student subgroup in the school fails to demonstrate proficiency on any Standards of Learning assessment. The bill finally alters the objectives of Standards of Learning Assessments. The bill contains technical amendments.

S.B. 899

Patron: Reeves

Bumper stickers on school buses. Requires local school divisions to place decals on the rear of school buses noting that the buses stop at railroad crossings.

S.B. 900

Patron: Reeves

Sale of commercial advertising space on school buses and real property. Permits a school board to sell advertising space on the exterior of school buses and real property with certain limitations. The limitations include requirements for the size and placement of advertisements on buses and prohibitions on any political, religious, or age-inappropriate advertisement. The bill requires the board to devote revenue from bus advertisements to the costs of transporting students and revenue from real property advertisements to the costs of constructing and maintaining school buildings.

S.B. 936

Patron: Smith

Principals, assistant principals, and supervisors; reassignment. Changes the deadline for a school board to notify principals, assistant principals, or supervisors under continuing contract of their reassignment to teaching positions from April 15 to June 15.

S.B. 940

Patron: Stuart

School resource officers; local law-enforcement agencies to provide. Requires every school board throughout the Commonwealth to coordinate with the local law-enforcement agency to provide at least one school resource officer for every public elementary, middle, and high school within the district. The bill provides that funding for these school resource officers shall be provided through the general appropriation act and not by any locality or school board.

S.B. 955

Patron: Ruff

Public schools; teacher licensure. Directs the Board of Education to establish criteria in its regulations governing licensure that exempts any person seeking initial licensure from coursework and professional teacher's assessment requirements if such person graduated with a baccalaureate degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics in the top 10 percent of his graduating class from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.