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Senate Committee on Education and Health Subcommittee Public Education

Miller (Chairman), Howell, Newman, Locke, Smith

Clerk: Patty Lung, Wesley Bland
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: January 31, 2014
Time and Place: 9 a.m. / 3rd Floor East

S.B. 131

Patron: Newman

School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good cause" waiver of this requirement for the 2011-2012 school year.

S.B. 588

Patron: Black

Student discipline; modifying long-term suspensions and expulsions. Permits a school board or a committee thereof to reduce the long-term suspension or expulsion of a student or students who received a greater punishment in cases in which the school board or committee determines that (i) two or more students have engaged in closely related offenses arising out of the same incident or circumstances that lead to each student's expulsion or suspension, (ii) the cases resulted in highly disparate disciplinary decisions in which at least one student received a lesser punishment, and (iii) no rational basis exists for the disparate disciplinary decisions. The bill provides that such decisions of the school board or a committee thereof are not subject to judicial review.

S.B. 637

Patron: Smith

School calendar; continuing waivers. Requires the Board of Education to waive the requirement that a local school board set the first day students are required to attend school to be after Labor Day for any local school board that was granted a "good cause" waiver of this requirement for the 2011-2012 school year.

S.B. 672

Patron: Favola

Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; out-of-state students. Requires the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Board) to include in its criteria and procedures governing admissions to the school provisions for the admission of students who are not residents of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that out-of-state students be admitted on a space-available basis and that priority be given to students who are residents of the Commonwealth. In addition, the Board may delegate authority to the superintendent to accept out-of-state students and may charge such students tuition, transportation, and other recurring fees as proposed by the superintendent and approved by the Board.