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2015 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health

Chairman: Stephen H. Martin

Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: December 1, 2014
Time and Place: 1:00PM / Senate Room B
To consider a continued bill, as well as receive various reports

H.B. 324 Virginia Virtual School; established, report, effective date.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the online educational programs and services offered to students enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School. The Secretary of Education is responsible for such agency. The 13-member Board is given operational control of the School and assigned powers and duties. The bill requires the School to be open to any school-age person in the Commonwealth and provide an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality for grades kindergarten through 12. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2015.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-208, 2.2-2101, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, 22.1-212.23, 22.1-253.13:2, 23-14, and 58.1-638 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 22.1 a chapter numbered 19.1, consisting of sections numbered 22.1-349.1 through 22.1-349.5, relating to the creation of the Virginia Virtual School.

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